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Date:      Mon, 3 Sep 2018 21:54:47 -0700
From:      Cameron Berkenpas <cam@neo-zeon.de>
To:        Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA4 fails to boot on POWER9/KVM
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Hello,

Argh. I went out of my way to select the right ISO image and then 
apparently still grabbed the wrong one without noticing the name.

I went and tried this image:
FreeBSD-12.0-ALPHA4-powerpc-powerpc64-20180831-r338410-disc1.iso

Still the same issue though.

Thanks!

On 09/03/2018 07:42 PM, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> Hello Cameron,
>
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 11:15 PM Cameron Berkenpas <cam@neo-zeon.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> It seems that FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA4 is having trouble booting on KVM on
>> POWER9 (Talos II).
>>
>> Here's the image I've tried:
>> FreeBSD-12.0-ALPHA4-powerpc-powerpcspe-20180831-r338410-disc1.iso
>>
> The powerpcspe ISO won't work on a Talos.  I don't even expect that
> particular ISO to work at all, given the nature of the architecture.
> For Talos, and IBM POWER* in general, you need the powerpc64 ISO.
>
> I don't know if that will solve your problem, given the errors printed
> below, but it's at least a first step.
>
> - Justin
>
>
>> It fails regardless of whether I run kvm from the console or through
>> virt-manager.
>>
>> Seems to be disk related... I get the messages below regardless of
>> whether I try to boot from CD-ROM or disk. I've tried all disk types for
>> both (usb, scsi, sata, virtio, etc).
>>
>> It's important to note that this worked on an older snapshot of
>> 12.0-CURRENT, though I don't know the last specific working revision I
>> tried.
>>
>> Here's the output:
>>
>> SLOF **********************************************************************
>> QEMU Starting
>>    Build Date = Sep 24 2017 12:23:07
>>    FW Version = buildd@ release 20170724
>>    Press "s" to enter Open Firmware.
>>
>> Populating /vdevice methods
>> Populating /vdevice/vty@71000000
>> Populating /vdevice/nvram@71000001
>> Populating /vdevice/v-scsi@71000002
>>          SCSI: Looking for devices
>>             8200000000000000 CD-ROM   : "QEMU     QEMU CD-ROM 2.5+"
>> Populating /pci@800000020000000
>>                        00 0000 (D) : 8086 100e    e1000 [ net ]
>> No NVRAM common partition, re-initializing...
>> Scanning USB
>> Using default console: /vdevice/vty@71000000
>>
>>
>>
>>     Welcome to Open Firmware
>>
>>     Copyright (c) 2004, 2017 IBM Corporation All rights reserved.
>>     This program and the accompanying materials are made available
>>     under the terms of the BSD License available at
>>     http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
>>
>>
>> Trying to load:  from: /vdevice/v-scsi@71000002/disk@8200000000000000
>> ...   Successfully loaded
>> Consoles: Open Firmware console
>>
>> FreeBSD/powerpcspe Open Firmware loader, Revision 0.1
>> (Fri Aug 31 17:53:54 UTC 2018 root@releng3.nyi.freebsd.org)
>> Memory: 33554432KB
>> Booted from: /vdevice/v-scsi@71000002/disk@8200000000000000
>>
>>
>> block-size NOT FOUND
>> #blocks NOT FOUNDSCSI-DISK: Access beyond end of device !
>> SCSI-DISK: Access beyond end of device !
>> SCSI-DISK: Access beyond end of device !
>> SCSI-DISK: Access beyond end of device !
>> SCSI-DISK: Access beyond end of device !
>> SCSI-DISK: Access beyond end of device !
>> /
>> block-size NOT FOUND
>> #blocks NOT FOUNDSCSI-DISK: Access beyond end of device !
>> SCSI-DISK: Access beyond end of device !
>> SCSI-DISK: Access beyond end of device !
>> SCSI-DISK: Access beyond end of device !
>> SCSI-DISK: Access beyond end of device !
>> SCSI-DISK: Access beyond end of device !
>> \
>> block-size NOT FOUND
>> #blocks NOT FOUND
>>
>> ( 700 ) Program Exception [ 0 ]
>>
>>
>>       R0 .. R7           R8 .. R15         R16 .. R23         R24 .. R31
>> 000000000000000b   000000000345ddd4   ffffffffffffffff 0000000002c50dd8
>> 0000000002c559e0   0000000028686561   0000000002c57c50 0000000002c51d10
>> 0000000000000000   0000000002c68540   0000000002c57c48 0000000002c52594
>> 000000000345e900   0000000002c68280   0000000002c63300 0000000000000000
>> 0000000002c682c0   0000000020000048   0000000000000000 000000000345e900
>> 0000000000000000   0000000000000000   0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>> 0000000000000040   0000000000000000   0000000002c6eb00 0000000000000000
>> 0000000000000008   000000007fffffff   0000000002c5cb04 000000000345e900
>>
>>       CR / XER           LR / CTR          SRR0 / SRR1        DAR / DSISR
>>           80000044   0000000002c029f0   0000000028686560 0000000000000000
>> 0000000020040000   0000000028686561   0000000000083000 00000000




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