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  • Booting Debian in qemu-system-alpha

    From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 24 17:20:01 2020
    Hi!

    Has anyone had any success recently booting Debian on qemu-system-alpha?

    I just built qemu-system using the alpha-softmmu target from git and tried
    to run Debian's Alpha port but the output hangs very early:

    root@nofan:/local_scratch/alpha-system> ./qemu-system-alpha -m 512 -nographic -drive file=disk.img,media=disk,format=raw,index=0 -L pc-bios/ -kernel vmlinux -append ‘console=ttyS0’ -initrd initrd.gz -net nic -net user -drive file=debian-10.0-alpha-
    NETINST-1.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom
    PCI: 00:00:0 class 0300 id 1013:00b8
    PCI: region 0: 10000000
    PCI: region 1: 12000000
    PCI: 00:01:0 class 0200 id 8086:100e
    PCI: region 0: 12020000
    PCI: region 1: 0000c000
    PCI: 00:02:0 class 0101 id 1095:0646
    PCI: region 0: 0000c040
    PCI: region 1: 0000c048
    PCI: region 3: 0000c04c

    Debian ISO taken from [1].

    Adrian

    [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-01-25/debian-10.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Richard Henderson on Fri Jan 24 22:00:02 2020
    On 1/24/20 9:19 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
    Oh. Hah! I just tried again, cutting and pasting your command-line. You've got unicode quotes, not ascii ' (\x27). That gets passed through to the kernel
    as-is and prevents console=ttyS0 from being parsed properly.

    Good catch. That helped. Thanks.

    I'm considering setting up two qemu-based buildds for alpha in the cloud now.

    Adrian

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  • From Richard Henderson@21:1/5 to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz on Fri Jan 24 21:40:02 2020
    On 1/24/20 6:16 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
    Hi!

    Has anyone had any success recently booting Debian on qemu-system-alpha?

    I just built qemu-system using the alpha-softmmu target from git and tried
    to run Debian's Alpha port but the output hangs very early:

    root@nofan:/local_scratch/alpha-system> ./qemu-system-alpha -m 512 -nographic -drive file=disk.img,media=disk,format=raw,index=0 -L pc-bios/ -kernel vmlinux -append ‘console=ttyS0’ -initrd initrd.gz -net nic -net user -drive file=debian-10.0-alpha-
    NETINST-1.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom
    PCI: 00:00:0 class 0300 id 1013:00b8
    PCI: region 0: 10000000
    PCI: region 1: 12000000
    PCI: 00:01:0 class 0200 id 8086:100e
    PCI: region 0: 12020000
    PCI: region 1: 0000c000
    PCI: 00:02:0 class 0101 id 1095:0646
    PCI: region 0: 0000c040
    PCI: region 1: 0000c048
    PCI: region 3: 0000c04c

    Works for me, from this morning's git (ba2ed84fe6a7). I certainly get all the way to the "Select a language" screen of the installer.

    Oh. Hah! I just tried again, cutting and pasting your command-line. You've got unicode quotes, not ascii ' (\x27). That gets passed through to the kernel as-is and prevents console=ttyS0 from being parsed properly.

    So the kernel output simply isn't going where you thought, and in this case, nowhere at all.


    r~

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=@21:1/5 to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz on Mon Jan 27 09:40:01 2020
    On 1/24/20 9:52 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
    On 1/24/20 9:19 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
    Oh. Hah! I just tried again, cutting and pasting your command-line. You've
    got unicode quotes, not ascii ' (\x27). That gets passed through to the kernel
    as-is and prevents console=ttyS0 from being parsed properly.

    Good catch. That helped. Thanks.

    I'm considering setting up two qemu-based buildds for alpha in the cloud now.

    Nice!

    Looking at cloud provider default plans, and problems with buildd on
    other archs (mipsel in particular) I recommend you to use at least 2GB
    instead of 512MB.

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