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On 07/11/14 10:45, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday, July 04, 2014 7:07:20 am Alie Tan wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alie Tan <alie@afflemedialab.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am getting Boot loader too large message while using
>>> FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140701-r268111-disc1.iso
>>>
>>> Is there any way to solve this issue?
>>>
>> Strange, resizing the freebsd-boot to 128k solved my issue. why default
>> slice size making such issue?
> Good question.  Perhaps Nathan (cc'd) knows?
>

I don't honestly remember where that number came from. It's at line 72 
of usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit/partedit_x86.c. If 128 works better, I'm 
happy to change it, but it would be nice to know what the actual bounds 
here are before putting in a new arbitrary number.
-Nathan