23 aug 2014 kl. 09:17 skrev Matthew D. Fuller <fulle...@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 ”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). Yes, gpart fixed it. Thanks. But it’s annoying. Why is manual tinkering required here? Why isn’t it set to 512k by default? I checked the handbook (2.6.3), and it says ”the freebsd-boot partition should be no larger than 512K due to current boot code limitations” ... Joel _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
