Re: Power7 boot fail

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Going through the documentation in preparation for filing a bug report. I
noticed this comment on section installing going through the
different installation file types. In the download section there is no
memstick version that I can find. Could someone verify that for PPC64 there
is no memstick.img install file type available?

*-bootonly.iso*: This is the smallest installation file as it only contains
the installer. A working Internet connection is required during
installation as the installer will download the files it needs to complete
the FreeBSD installation. This file should be burned to optical media.

Adrian if you are interested in working on this I can setup a jump box with
a serial connection to the s1 port. If you are in the midwest US we can
make arguments to hand this machine off to someone with more skills with
getting BSD on IBM.

-Tim


On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 12:43=E2=80=AFPM Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> =
wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jun 2026 at 22:49, Timothy Turner <[email protected]> wrote=
:
> >
> > I have been working on testing BSD 15.1 on an IBM Power7.
> > IBM 8202 Model E4C
> >
> > I am booting via USB using SMS. The system does see the boot device and
> I have successfully used the same USB device to boot into linux. I am
> getting the following error when using normal mode.
> >
> > Detected bad memory access to address: fffffffffffffffe
> > Package path =3D /packages/boot-mgr
> >
> > I am getting the same error on 14.4, both 14.4 and 15.1 were using the
> bootonly iso.
>
> Is anything else logged before this? Would you mind filing a bug?
>
> I'd love to figure out how to fix this but without hardware or access
> to the hardware to be able to boot test images, we're kind of stuck :(
>
>
>
>
> -adrian
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Going through the documentation=C2=A0in preparation=C2=A0f=
or filing a bug report. I noticed this comment=C2=A0on section installing g=
oing through the different=C2=A0installation file types. In the download se=
ction there is no memstick version that I can find. Could someone verify th=
at for PPC64 there is no memstick.img install file type available?<br><br><=
blockquote>
<code><strong>-bootonly.iso</strong></code>: This is the smallest=20
installation file as it only contains the installer. A working Internet=20
connection is required during installation as the installer will=20
download the files it needs to complete the FreeBSD installation. This=20
file should be burned to optical media.<br></blockquote><div>Adrian if you =
are interested in working on this I can setup a jump box with a serial=C2=
=A0connection to the s1 port. If you are in the midwest US we can make argu=
ments=C2=A0to hand this machine off to someone with more skills with gettin=
g BSD on IBM.=C2=A0</div><div><br></div><div>-Tim</div></div><div dir=3D"lt=
r"><br></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail=
_attr">On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 12:43=E2=80=AFPM Adrian Chadd &lt;<a href=3D=
"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt; wr=
ote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px=
 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 16 =
Jun 2026 at 22:49, Timothy Turner &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]=
m" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I have been working on testing BSD 15.1 on an IBM Power7.<br>
&gt; IBM 8202 Model E4C<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I am booting via USB using SMS. The system does see the boot device an=
d I have successfully used the same USB device to boot into linux. I am get=
ting the following error when using normal mode.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Detected bad memory access to address: fffffffffffffffe<br>
&gt; Package path =3D /packages/boot-mgr<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I am getting the same error on 14.4, both 14.4 and 15.1 were using the=
 bootonly iso.<br>
<br>
Is anything else logged before this? Would you mind filing a bug?<br>
<br>
I&#39;d love to figure out how to fix this but without hardware or access<b=
r>
to the hardware to be able to boot test images, we&#39;re kind of stuck :(<=
br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
-adrian<br>
</blockquote></div>

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