From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 23 09:42:07 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3941CBB1 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 09:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mtaout.vnode.se (mtaout.vnode.se [192.121.62.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E40B1331C for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 09:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.10.10.103] (h60n6-th-c-d4.ias.bredband.telia.com [217.208.44.60]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mtaout.vnode.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 25505B059B; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:39:50 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot From: Joel Dahl In-Reply-To: <20140823071718.GA46031@over-yonder.net> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:42:03 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <34C87683-51C4-4EE2-AA01-C100F06178F7@vnode.se> References: <06EAD266-05B9-4BC3-B99B-400534336533@vnode.se> <20140823071718.GA46031@over-yonder.net> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Cc: current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 09:42:07 -0000 23 aug 2014 kl. 09:17 skrev Matthew D. Fuller = : > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 09:02:10AM +0200 I heard the voice of > Joel Dahl, and lo! it spake thus: >>=20 >> 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 =94Boot loader too large=94. = Nothing >> more. Any ideas? >=20 > 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=92s annoying. Why is manual tinkering required here? Why isn=92t = it set to 512k by default? I checked the handbook (2.6.3), and it says =94the freebsd-boot = partition should be no larger than 512K due to current boot code = limitations=94 ... Joel=