From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 22 11:26:56 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 DB997D6F for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:26:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no) Received: from smtp.fagskolen.gjovik.no (smtp.fagskolen.gjovik.no [IPv6:2001:700:1100:1:200:ff:fe00:b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52070A6D for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:26:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.fig.ol.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.fig.ol.no (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r0MBOxRP049901 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:24:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no) Received: from localhost (trond@localhost) by mail.fig.ol.no (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id r0MBOxMK049898; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:24:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.fig.ol.no: trond owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:24:59 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= Sender: Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no To: Daniel Braniss Subject: Re: pmbr: Boot loader too large In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) Organization: Fagskolen Innlandet OpenPGP: url=http://fig.ol.no/~trond/trond.key MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="2055831798-439718327-1358853899=:41917" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mail.fig.ol.no Cc: FreeBSD Hackers 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 11:26:56 -0000 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--