From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 23 18:45:49 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8CF2099C for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-x233.google.com (mail-qg0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c04::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C0D830F4 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qg0-f51.google.com with SMTP id a108so11535746qge.24 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:45:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=xrSDKex1DZkWsJWI0K6s+9lEJH/Gh47VnGRu3mgOBZ8=; b=Bf29j/cEpQ64wkmXPMbWJoKbj6kXfKf8i86oTC479EvzDkTO/jOeqAWZoltFCgCTN8 dRtwKTjZ8N8ix7uyX0mJdcAAoflqwAJiilqCZo7zryoPXdDgNTb7vhJaVoSsLWhZn4sl qfPQlmobJX+2UT7DCCS/pTYOPZEehfYA6MA4sLO1ad4Atgt5s26LY6laZhmXO0jCXOlw hExchu5dHCyXu3VV8J8g2XIZvujVj4k1OzeEh7iHuRP1QAqslLhag6PgfydssCvW9SJ/ MJLszKMVQb6DwauTIOK+9294MxuMjKv+af0v0EX7XAQwdF5ICmTFu7hAtKwUZHBh0HX2 mqnA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.80.167 with SMTP id c36mr18543167qgd.52.1408819548403; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.39.139 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:45:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <34C87683-51C4-4EE2-AA01-C100F06178F7@vnode.se> References: <06EAD266-05B9-4BC3-B99B-400534336533@vnode.se> <20140823071718.GA46031@over-yonder.net> <34C87683-51C4-4EE2-AA01-C100F06178F7@vnode.se> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:45:48 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: bba0ahtTDp2f1AYBmsISJUgaXvM Message-ID: Subject: Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot From: Adrian Chadd To: Joel Dahl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "current@freebsd.org" , "Matthew D. Fuller" 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 18:45:49 -0000 I thought there was a recent discussion about this. Would you mind filing a bug so this gets looked at? -a On 23 August 2014 02:42, Joel Dahl wrote: > > 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: >>> >>> 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 =E2=80=9DBoot loader too large=E2=80= =9D. 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=E2=80=99s annoying. Why is manual tinkering required here? Why isn= =E2=80=99t it set to 512k by default? > > I checked the handbook (2.6.3), and it says =E2=80=9Dthe freebsd-boot par= tition should be no larger than 512K due to current boot code limitations= =E2=80=9D ... > > Joel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= "