Re: Power7 boot fail

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 PM Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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
>