Hi friends,
I am a UNIX lover. I have tried several unix flavors including linux, solaris(x86) and FreeBSD, all these are the unices which can be installed on x86 hardware. Now to use the IBM AIX, I searched and googled alot, finally I came across QEME, which emulates the PowerPC platorm to turn AIX on. I have access to an IBM AIX 6.1 DVD. I have configured QEMU with the following details
Machine Type:- PowerPC PREP Platform
CPU Type:- 64bit
CPU MODEL:- PowerPC 750
No of CPU's:- 1
Operating System:- PowerPC
Memory:- 1000 MB
Firstboot device:- DVD ROM image
Now when I start the machine, I see the following messages
Welcome to OpenBios v1.0 built on July 5 2009 17:36
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And when I type "help", I see
Enter 'help command-name or 'help category-name for more help
(Use ONLY first word of a category description)
Examples: help select -or- help line
Categories:
boot (Load and execute a client program)
diag (Diagnostic routines)
ok
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And when I type "help boot" I see,
boot [<device-specifier>:<device-arguments>] [boot-arguments]
Examples:
boot Default boot <values specified in nvram variables]
boot disk1:a Boot from disk1 partition a
boot hd:1,\boot\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
ok
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That's all the data that I can grab from this complicated bootmenu for you.
So friends, do u have any idea for me how to get this machine booting from the AIX DVD image, and install AIX?
Looking forward to your lovely and helpful replies.
I never been exposed to QEMU but if this screenshot is the only way to prove that is QEMU able to run AIX , with no more proves that would be some sort of jokes.
Ok forget about QEMU for a while, could you atleast tell me whether you have been exposed to such a bios menu? And could you please help me how to boot this virtual computer from the bootable cd-rom? Maybe it would work with AIX, who knows, it is a worth a try, don't you think so?
