Re: Power7 boot fail

Tim,
I believe that in the recent past I definitely saw PPC64 memstick.img. Perhaps this is a big on some of the post build scripts?

Javi.

On June 18, 2026 11:55:01 PM UTC, Timothy Turner <tlturner77@gmail.com> wrote:
>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
>>