Re: Power7 boot fail

"Goetz T. Fischer" <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:03:08 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Organization	R-A-C
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:49:30 -0500, Timothy Turner wrote:
> Detected bad memory access to address: fffffffffffffffe
> Package path = /packages/boot-mgr

exactly the same error i got on power8. here is the full one:

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Detected bad memory access to address: fffffffffffffffe
Package path = /packages/boot-mgr
Loc-code =
Last memory-queue entry @ c472c0
000000c472a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 :................:
000000c472b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 :................:
000000c472c0: 00 00 00 00 08 b0 3a 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff :......:.........:
000000c472d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 ba d1 b0 b0 :....... ........:
Return Stack Trace
------------------
@  - c40530
close-package  - c64040
(poplocals)  - c3e9e8
(init-program)  - c8e14c
boot  - c8ecd4
evaluate  - c50290
invalid pointer - dd9565
invalid pointer - f
invalid pointer - f
catch  - c3cff0
bt-task-boot-on-this  - d90b9c
(poplocals)  - c3e9e8
catch  - c3cff0
execute-device-method  - c64b4c
(poplocals)  - c3e9e8
(select-boot-seq)  - c65ad4
(poplocals)  - c3e9e8
evaluate  - c50290
invalid pointer - 0
invalid pointer - 0
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