Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:24:59 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no> To: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pmbr: Boot loader too large Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301221223440.41917@mail.fig.ol.no> In-Reply-To: <E1Txbuq-0007Zr-MY@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1Txbuq-0007Zr-MY@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --2055831798-439718327-1358853899=:41917 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:21+0200, Daniel Braniss wrote: > 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 A freebsd-boot partition must never be larger than 128K, i.e. 65536 512B blocks. -- +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Vennlig hilsen, | Best regards, | | Trond Endrestøl, | Trond Endrestøl, | | IT-ansvarlig, | System administrator, | | Fagskolen Innlandet, | Gjøvik Technical College, Norway, | | tlf. mob. 952 62 567, | Cellular...: +47 952 62 567, | | sentralbord 61 14 54 00. | Switchboard: +47 61 14 54 00. | +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+ --2055831798-439718327-1358853899=:41917--
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