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Date:      Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:42:03 +0200
From:      Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot
Message-ID:  <34C87683-51C4-4EE2-AA01-C100F06178F7@vnode.se>
In-Reply-To: <20140823071718.GA46031@over-yonder.net>
References:  <06EAD266-05B9-4BC3-B99B-400534336533@vnode.se> <20140823071718.GA46031@over-yonder.net>

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23 aug 2014 kl. 09:17 skrev Matthew D. Fuller =
<fullermd@over-yonder.net>:

> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 09:02:10AM +0200 I heard the voice of
> Joel Dahl, and lo! it spake thus:
>>=20
>> Today I installed 11-CURRENT from the 20140811 FreeBSD/i386 snapshot
>> on my IBM T43 laptop but encountered some problems. The memstick
>> installation went fine and I pretty much used default values
>> everywhere, but upon reboot I got =94Boot loader too large=94. =
Nothing
>> more. Any ideas?
>=20
> The freebsd-boot partition is bigger than five hundred twenty-mumble
> k.  It'll be OK if you squeeze it down to 512.  Somthing like 'gpart
> resize -i 1 -s 512k ada23' (untested, sub your disk).

Yes, gpart fixed it. Thanks.

But it=92s annoying. Why is manual tinkering required here? Why isn=92t =
it set to 512k by default?

I checked the handbook (2.6.3), and it says =94the freebsd-boot =
partition should be no larger than 512K due to current boot code =
limitations=94 ...

Joel=



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