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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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Subject: Re: Fresh-install from -current snapshot: Boot loader too large
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On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 10:24:01AM +0200 I heard the voice of
Jeremie Le Hen, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> On the first boot I get the following error message:
>     Boot loader too large

As I recall, this comes from the freebsd-boot partition being too big,
where "too big" is some unround number like 540k or something odd like
that.  Make sure that partition is 512k or something smaller.


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