Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:45:48 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> Cc: "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Subject: Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot Message-ID: <CAJ-VmonpvgKiUFR0gO6b0ctwujRcHqwqxVd%2BRarYXJjNYiDZZQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <34C87683-51C4-4EE2-AA01-C100F06178F7@vnode.se> References: <06EAD266-05B9-4BC3-B99B-400534336533@vnode.se> <20140823071718.GA46031@over-yonder.net> <34C87683-51C4-4EE2-AA01-C100F06178F7@vnode.se>
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I thought there was a recent discussion about this. Would you mind filing a bug so this gets looked at? -a On 23 August 2014 02:42, Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> wrote: > > 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: >>> >>> 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 =E2=80=9DBoot loader too large=E2=80= =9D. Nothing >>> more. Any ideas? >> >> 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=E2=80=99s annoying. Why is manual tinkering required here? Why isn= =E2=80=99t it set to 512k by default? > > I checked the handbook (2.6.3), and it says =E2=80=9Dthe freebsd-boot par= tition should be no larger than 512K due to current boot code limitations= =E2=80=9D ... > > Joel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= "
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