Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:19:58 +0200 From: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pxeboot binary is too big on FreeBSD (>640KBytes) Message-ID: <02586EFB-0BB5-46BF-9EE5-28623D20EFD3@me.com> In-Reply-To: <6984fd5d-ae58-11a4-0d21-a8695b0c77f7@selasky.org>
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> On 21. Feb 2022, at 09:43, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> wrote: > > FYI: > > After a lot of digging trying everything, I found that the pxeboot and loader.efi was too big simply due to ZFS support. > > So I did this after buildworld: > > cd /usr/src/stand > make WITHOUT_LOADER_ZFS=YES clean > make WITHOUT_LOADER_ZFS=YES all > make WITHOUT_LOADER_ZFS=YES install > > And now it works, with my old GigaByte mainboard! > > Why should pxeboot have ZFS support? > > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/problem-with-isc-dhcpd-and-diskless-booting.82199/ > > —HPS > Well, the feature X can be helpful for recovery purposes. The root cause is not the feature X itself, but the size limit. And the unfortunate fact, the size limit is not fixed, but depends on the system. Therefore there are two options - either to fix the size limit or drop option X from default build — at least till the size limit is fixed (or support for BIOS will be dropped). rgds, toomashelp
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