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Date:      Sat, 23 Aug 2014 02:17:18 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot
Message-ID:  <20140823071718.GA46031@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <06EAD266-05B9-4BC3-B99B-400534336533@vnode.se>
References:  <06EAD266-05B9-4BC3-B99B-400534336533@vnode.se>

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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 ”Boot loader too large”. 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).


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.



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