From Tommi.Sihvo at tieto.com Mon Oct 7 22:30:17 2019 From: Tommi.Sihvo at tieto.com (Tommi.Sihvo at tieto.com) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 11:30:17 +0000 Subject: [Linuxppc-users] RHEL8@Power8 Message-ID: <2464D71F-663D-4D3F-A37A-92E632654566@tieto.com> Hi all! Maybe I'm doing something totally wrong..but anyways, need to check what to get on the right track. ( So what I'm trying is to start creating an installation image of RHEL8 on Power8 HW. HW: 8286-41A (IBM Power System S814) Firmware:FW860.70 Installation binary: rhel-8.0-ppc64le-dvd.iso I set the ISO file to VIOS optical library; and tried so boot my image partition from DVD via that--and got this: Detected bad memory access to address: ffffffffffffffff Package path = /packages/boot-mgr Loc-code = Last memory-queue entry @ c472c0 000000c472a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 :................: 000000c472b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 :................: 000000c472c0: 00 00 00 00 08 af 3a 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff :......: ........: 000000c472d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 ba d1 b0 b0 :....... ........: Return Stack Trace ------------------ @ - c40530 close-package - c641e0 (poplocals) - c3e9e8 (init-program) - c8e3c4 boot - c8ef4c evaluate - c50308 invalid pointer - e3afd5 invalid pointer - f invalid pointer - f catch - c3cff0 bt-task-boot-on-this - db3754 (poplocals) - c3e9e8 catch - c3cff0 execute-device-method - c64cec (poplocals) - c3e9e8 (select-boot-seq) - c65c74 (poplocals) - c3e9e8 evaluate - c50308 invalid pointer - 0 invalid pointer - 0 The incident generated also HMC home call; so obviously something didn?t go as smoothly as one would have expected. Any ideas for the root cause? Some guesses: - my RHEL ISO file is wrong => is the some own "Power8 dedic" ISO at Redhat site ? (similarly as there was the Altenate package for RHEL 7.5 for Power9) -VIOS optical library has some limitation for max 4GB files (the RHEL iso image is 6GB) => this causes some issues? -Something else..? ( Or should I try to create the image at Power9 HW ? Br, tommi Terveisin / Best regards, Tommi Sihvo, Lead Service Architect Tieto Finland Oy, ZSMS Shared Services ZSMSC Cloud IaaS and Infra Capacity services tommi.sihvo at tieto.com, direct +358 20 725 1771 mobile +358 40 518 0646 Joukahaisenkatu 1, 5th floor 20520 TURKU www.tieto.com Please note: The information contained in this message may be legally privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorised use, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank You. Tieto.Knowledge.Passion.Results