Re: Power7 boot fail

On Tue, 16 Jun 2026 at 22:49, Timothy Turner <tlturner77@gmail.com> 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 = /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