Hello,
Out of curiosity and self education I’m trying to setup a dev environment where I can experiment with early boot stages on PPC/PPC64 machines.
I started out trying to get my local filesystem mapped through via VFAT to a fat based filesystem (floppy or otherwise) to a OF device that I can use to load/execute boot code. No luck.
I tried creating fat floppy filesystems (Mtools) also no luck.
I also tried building iso images (using hdiutil, I’m using a Mac) without luck.
There must be something fundamental I’m missing about how the details of the -drive directive work. And there must be something about how I’m creating the ISO image (because I can attach a FreeBSD ppc ISO and see its filesystem as OF device “cd:,\”
Is there an easy way to create/build an image (or directory—if VFAT can be made to work) that can be attached via command line options and have it visible as a source of files for booting the ppc/ppc64 emulated environment?
Thanks!
Rob
Hi,
Openbios can read hfs. So you might want to create a hfs hd image.
Attaching is simple: -drive file=hfs.img,format=raw,media=disk
Best,
Howard