Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:42:03 +0200 From: Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot Message-ID: <34C87683-51C4-4EE2-AA01-C100F06178F7@vnode.se> In-Reply-To: <20140823071718.GA46031@over-yonder.net> References: <06EAD266-05B9-4BC3-B99B-400534336533@vnode.se> <20140823071718.GA46031@over-yonder.net>
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23 aug 2014 kl. 09:17 skrev Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd@over-yonder.net>: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 09:02:10AM +0200 I heard the voice of > Joel Dahl, and lo! it spake thus: >> >> Today I installed 11-CURRENT from the 20140811 FreeBSD/i386 snapshot >> on my IBM T43 laptop but encountered some problems. The memstick >> installation went fine and I pretty much used default values >> everywhere, but upon reboot I got ”Boot loader too large”. Nothing >> more. Any ideas? > > The freebsd-boot partition is bigger than five hundred twenty-mumble > k. It'll be OK if you squeeze it down to 512. Somthing like 'gpart > resize -i 1 -s 512k ada23' (untested, sub your disk). Yes, gpart fixed it. Thanks. But it’s annoying. Why is manual tinkering required here? Why isn’t it set to 512k by default? I checked the handbook (2.6.3), and it says ”the freebsd-boot partition should be no larger than 512K due to current boot code limitations” ... Joel
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