Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

2016-05-18 Thread David Griffith
On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 11:44, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Adrian Davey wrote: On 2016-05-18 11:27, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 11:11, David Griffith wrote: Ahhh so it appears that Debian

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

2016-05-18 Thread David Griffith
On Wed, 18 May 2016, Adrian Davey wrote: On 2016-05-18 11:27, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 11:11, David Griffith wrote: Ahhh so it appears that Debian have broken QEMU packages for qemu-system-sparc :( You should be able to grab

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

2016-05-18 Thread David Griffith
On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 11:11, David Griffith wrote: Ahhh so it appears that Debian have broken QEMU packages for qemu-system-sparc :( You should be able to grab the binaries directly from QEMU git at http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=tree;f=pc-bios;h

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

2016-05-18 Thread David Griffith
On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 11:01, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 10:47, David Griffith wrote: Debian 8 installs QEMU 2.5. I upgraded to 2.6 with jessie-backports to no avail. None of your suggestions worked

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

2016-05-18 Thread David Griffith
On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 10:47, David Griffith wrote: Debian 8 installs QEMU 2.5. I upgraded to 2.6 with jessie-backports to no avail. None of your suggestions worked at all. Hmmm I wonder if what you're seeing is a framebuffer issue with GTK? Do you see

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

2016-05-18 Thread David Griffith
On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 10:34, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 10:02, David Griffith wrote: I've been trying to boot an old debian ISO under qemu sparc, but all I can get is a black screen unless I use

booting qemu sparc gives black window

2016-05-18 Thread David Griffith
-40r9-sparc-netinst.iso My host system is Debian 8. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?