Thanks Phillip. This system probably does have 64KB blocks, as the root FS is ~460 Gb in size. This leads to a couple of questions:
1. Is there a way to instruct the installer to install an EFI bootloader? 2. Shouldn't the docs indicate somewhere that if you deviate from the recommended partitioning scheme, you might see problems like this? On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 at 14:30, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2018, Larry Gadallah wrote: > > Thanks for the tip on how to debug this a bit more. I managed to do what > > you suggested, and saw a "heap full" error. See the photo attached, > > pulled from the video of the boot sequence. From what I can read from > > the frame, the whole boot line shows up as: > > > > booting hd0a:/bsd: 10491655+2536456+270368+0+675840 [701262heap > > full (0x9d324+65536) > > This shows it running out of memory trying to allocate 64kB of memory. > Is this system's root filesystem set up with 64kB blocks? > > If this was the EFI boot loader there would be more space available but it > appears to not be using EFI so it's more limited in the memory available > to it and such large disk blocks might push the loader beyond what it can > support. > > > > Philip Guenther -- Larry Gadallah, lgadallah AT gmail DOT com PGP Sig: AE93 1785 6874 7111 48AD 63A6 2136 3651 981C F87B
