Bug 505109 - qemu ppc/ppc64 boot says "Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified"
Summary: qemu ppc/ppc64 boot says "Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified"
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: openbios
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Glauber Costa
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F12VirtTarget
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Reported: 2009-06-10 16:54 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2011-06-27 14:13 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-06-27 14:13:47 UTC
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2009-06-10 16:54:37 UTC
Description of problem:

Trying to boot the libguestfs appliance using qemu-system-ppc
or qemu-system-ppc64 (on the ppc/ppc64 host) gives the following
error:

/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64 /usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64 -drive file=test1.img -drive file=test2.img -drive file=test3.img -drive file=../images/test.sqsh,snapshot=on -m 384 -no-reboot -kernel ../appliance/vmlinuz.fedora-12.powerpc64 -initrd ../appliance/initramfs.fedora-12.powerpc64.img -append panic=1 console=ttyS0 guestfs=10.0.2.4:6666 guestfs_verbose=1 noapic -nographic -serial stdio -net channel,6666:unix:/tmp/libguestfsxaTTya/sock,server,nowait -net user,vlan=0 -net nic,model=virtio,vlan=0
Warning: No DNS servers found

>> =============================================================
>> OpenBIOS 1.0 [May 21 2009 16:06]
>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
>> CPUs: 1
>> Memory: 384M
>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>> CPU type PowerPC,750
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on May 21 2009 16:06

>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***

The full build logs are here:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1403823&name=build.log (ppc)
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1403825&name=build.log (ppc64)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

qemu-kvm-0.10.50-6.kvm86.fc12.ppc
qemu-kvm-0.10.50-6.kvm86.fc12.ppc64

How reproducible:

Always under Koji.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build libguestfs on ppc or ppc64.
2. Try to run the tests ('LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 make check')
  
Actual results:

Fails to boot the appliance with the error above.

Expected results:

Should run the tests.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-06-10 17:10:10 UTC
Don't have a ppc64 box handy?  Never fear.  It's possible to
reproduce this bug on x86-64:

(1) Download http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/libguestfs/1.0.43/1.fc11/ppc64/libguestfs-1.0.43-1.fc11.ppc64.rpm

(2) Unpack it to get at the appliance (warning, this command will
create some subdirectories under the current directory, so do it
on /tmp):

 rpm2cpio libguestfs-1.0.43-1.fc11.ppc64.rpm | cpio -id

(3) Run:

 qemu-system-ppc64 -hda /dev/null \
   -kernel usr/lib64/guestfs/vmlinuz.fedora-12.powerpc64 \
   -initrd usr/lib64/guestfs/initramfs.fedora-12.powerpc64.img \
   -append console=ttyS0 -nographic -serial stdio

Result:

>> =============================================================
>> OpenBIOS 1.0 [May 21 2009 16:12]
>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
>> CPUs: 1
>> Memory: 128M
>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>> CPU type PowerPC,750
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on May 21 2009 16:12

>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***

0 > 

(How to exit the prompt?  At this point I have to kill qemu)

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-06-10 17:38:13 UTC
I tried it with qemu from today's git and it gets past
this error (although breaks a little further along):

$ ~/d/qemu/ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -hda /dev/null -kernel usr/lib64/guestfs/vmlinuz.fedora-12.powerpc64 -initrd usr/lib64/guestfs/initramfs.fedora-12.powerpc64.img -append console=ttyS0 -nographic -serial stdio
>> =============================================================
>> OpenBIOS 1.0 [Mar 31 2009 15:35]
>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
>> CPUs: 1
>> Memory: 128M
>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>> CPU type PowerPC,750
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Mar 31 2009 15:35

>> [ppc] Kernel already loaded (0x01000000 + 0x00fa5be4) (initrd 0x01800000 + 0x01cfdf36)
>> [ppc] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0
invalid/unsupported opcode: 1e - 03 - 0f (798c83c6) 00000000010082ec 1
invalid bits: 00400000 for opcode: 0b - 19 - 15 (2d746572) 0000000000009230

I'm going to report this second issue on qemu-devel now.

Comment 3 Mark McLoughlin 2009-06-22 14:42:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)

> >> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***

Reproduced this on rawhide x86_64 using your instructions

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-03-15 12:39:15 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 13 development cycle.
Changing version to '13'.

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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 14:13:47 UTC
Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
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