From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 22 11:21:22 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0246BE1 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:21:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from kabab.cs.huji.ac.il (kabab.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580A2A21 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by kabab.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1Txbuq-0007Zr-MY for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:21:20 +0200 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3 To: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: pmbr: Boot loader too large Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:21:20 +0200 From: Daniel Braniss Message-ID: X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:21:22 -0000 hi, this is the output from gpart show: => 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (465G) 34 2048 1 freebsd-boot (1.0M) 2082 4194304 2 freebsd-ufs [bootme] (2.0G) 4196386 12582912 3 freebsd-swap (6.0G) 16779298 959993837 4 freebsd-zfs (457G) => 34 976773101 ada1 GPT (465G) 34 2048 1 freebsd-boot (1.0M) 2082 4194304 2 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) 4196386 12582912 3 freebsd-swap (6.0G) 16779298 959993837 4 freebsd-zfs (457G) I also did: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada0 I'm trying to boot and get Boot loader too large not matter if I boot from disk or pxe. The pmbr is 512 bytes, so what causes it to overshoot? I don't know x86 assembler (nor want to :-), but the comment says: 545k should be enough so what's going on? thanks, danny