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Subject: Re: Minimum size of freebsd-boot
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On 21/06/2018 17:15, Manish Jain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Under GPT, FreeBSD needs a freebsd-boot partition of max size 512 KB. Is
> there a minimum size too ?

It's a while since I looked at the boot loaders but it used to be that
512kB was the *maximum* partition size allowed and the first stage boot
code would fail if it was bigger. This was with BIOS booting from a GPT
disk.

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