Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot
23 aug 2014 kl. 20:45 skrev Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org: I thought there was a recent discussion about this. Would you mind filing a bug so this gets looked at? Done. See Bug 192962. 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
Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot
Thanks! -a On 24 August 2014 02:21, Joel Dahl j...@vnode.se wrote: 23 aug 2014 kl. 20:45 skrev Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org: I thought there was a recent discussion about this. Would you mind filing a bug so this gets looked at? Done. See Bug 192962. 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
Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot
Hi, 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? 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
Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot
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) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. ___ 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
Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot
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
Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot
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 j...@vnode.se wrote: 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 ___ 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
Re: Boot loader too large
On Friday, July 11, 2014 6:50:43 pm Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 03:38:56PM -0700 I heard the voice of Nathan Whitehorn, and lo! it spake thus: I don't honestly remember where that number came from. It's at line 72 of usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit/partedit_x86.c. If 128 works better, I'm happy to change it, but it would be nice to know what the actual bounds here are before putting in a new arbitrary number. src/sys/boot/i386/pmbr/pmbr.s says - next_boot:. incl (%si). . . # Next LBA . . adcl $0,4(%si) . . mov %es,%ax.. . # Adjust segment for next . . addw $SECSIZE/16,%ax. . # sector . . cmp $0x9000,%ax.. . # Don't load past 0x9, . . jae err_big.. . # 545k should be enough for . . mov %ax,%es.. . # any boot code. :) - (err_big being printing the Boot loader too large message). Though 0x9 is actually 576k, not 545, but presumably there's some other adjustment lopping off bits somewhere; that's 62 sectors diff. The boot code is not loaded at offset 0, it is loaded at offset 0x7c00 (the same address the BIOS loads boot loaders): .set LOAD,0x7c00# Load address ... # # We found a boot partition. Load it into RAM starting at 0x7c00. # movw %bx,%di# Save partition pointer in %di leaw PART_START_LBA(%di),%si movw $LOAD/16,%bx Regardless, I settled on 512k for my boot partitions (after finding the above error when I previously decided it's a few dozen k, I'll just set aside a meg to be safe and then discovered the whole not-booting thing that caused. 512k should be fine even if it is a bit excessive. Also, larger partitions might actually increase boot time, but perhaps not noticably. -- John Baldwin ___ 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
Re: Boot loader too large
On Friday, July 04, 2014 7:07:20 am Alie Tan wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alie Tan a...@afflemedialab.com wrote: Hi, I am getting Boot loader too large message while using FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140701-r268111-disc1.iso Is there any way to solve this issue? Strange, resizing the freebsd-boot to 128k solved my issue. why default slice size making such issue? Good question. Perhaps Nathan (cc'd) knows? -- John Baldwin ___ 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
Re: Boot loader too large
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Alie Tan a...@afflemedialab.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alie Tan a...@afflemedialab.com wrote: Hi, I am getting Boot loader too large message while using FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140701-r268111-disc1.iso Is there any way to solve this issue? Strange, resizing the freebsd-boot to 128k solved my issue. why default slice size making such issue? Resizing to 128k from what value? I seem to recall that having larger freebsd-boot partitions caused problems. -Ben ___ 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
Re: Boot loader too large
On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Alie Tan a...@afflemedialab.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alie Tan a...@afflemedialab.com wrote: Hi, I am getting Boot loader too large message while using FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140701-r268111-disc1.iso Is there any way to solve this issue? Strange, resizing the freebsd-boot to 128k solved my issue. why default slice size making such issue? Resizing to 128k from what value? I seem to recall that having larger freebsd-boot partitions caused problems. Up to 512K is okay, but larger than that is a problem for the bootcode. I suggest always using 512K, it's not like using less saves an appreciable amount of space. And bootcode grows sometimes. ___ 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
Re: Boot loader too large
On 07/11/14 10:45, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday, July 04, 2014 7:07:20 am Alie Tan wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alie Tan a...@afflemedialab.com wrote: Hi, I am getting Boot loader too large message while using FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140701-r268111-disc1.iso Is there any way to solve this issue? Strange, resizing the freebsd-boot to 128k solved my issue. why default slice size making such issue? Good question. Perhaps Nathan (cc'd) knows? I don't honestly remember where that number came from. It's at line 72 of usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit/partedit_x86.c. If 128 works better, I'm happy to change it, but it would be nice to know what the actual bounds here are before putting in a new arbitrary number. -Nathan ___ 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
Re: Boot loader too large
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 03:38:56PM -0700 I heard the voice of Nathan Whitehorn, and lo! it spake thus: I don't honestly remember where that number came from. It's at line 72 of usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit/partedit_x86.c. If 128 works better, I'm happy to change it, but it would be nice to know what the actual bounds here are before putting in a new arbitrary number. src/sys/boot/i386/pmbr/pmbr.s says - next_boot:. incl (%si). . . # Next LBA . . adcl $0,4(%si) . . mov %es,%ax.. . # Adjust segment for next . . addw $SECSIZE/16,%ax. . # sector . . cmp $0x9000,%ax.. . # Don't load past 0x9, . . jae err_big.. . # 545k should be enough for . . mov %ax,%es.. . # any boot code. :) - (err_big being printing the Boot loader too large message). Though 0x9 is actually 576k, not 545, but presumably there's some other adjustment lopping off bits somewhere; that's 62 sectors diff. Regardless, I settled on 512k for my boot partitions (after finding the above error when I previously decided it's a few dozen k, I'll just set aside a meg to be safe and then discovered the whole not-booting thing that caused. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. ___ 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
Re: Boot loader too large
On 07/11/14 15:50, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 03:38:56PM -0700 I heard the voice of Nathan Whitehorn, and lo! it spake thus: I don't honestly remember where that number came from. It's at line 72 of usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit/partedit_x86.c. If 128 works better, I'm happy to change it, but it would be nice to know what the actual bounds here are before putting in a new arbitrary number. src/sys/boot/i386/pmbr/pmbr.s says - next_boot:. incl (%si). . . # Next LBA . . adcl $0,4(%si) . . mov %es,%ax.. . # Adjust segment for next . . addw $SECSIZE/16,%ax. . # sector . . cmp $0x9000,%ax.. . # Don't load past 0x9, . . jae err_big.. . # 545k should be enough for . . mov %ax,%es.. . # any boot code. :) - (err_big being printing the Boot loader too large message). Though 0x9 is actually 576k, not 545, but presumably there's some other adjustment lopping off bits somewhere; that's 62 sectors diff. Regardless, I settled on 512k for my boot partitions (after finding the above error when I previously decided it's a few dozen k, I'll just set aside a meg to be safe and then discovered the whole not-booting thing that caused. I bumped it to 512K. Thanks! -Nathan ___ 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
Re: Boot loader too large
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alie Tan a...@afflemedialab.com wrote: Hi, I am getting Boot loader too large message while using FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140701-r268111-disc1.iso Is there any way to solve this issue? Strange, resizing the freebsd-boot to 128k solved my issue. why default slice size making such issue? Thanks in advance ___ 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
Boot loader too large
Hi, I am getting Boot loader too large message while using FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140701-r268111-disc1.iso Is there any way to solve this issue? Thanks in advance ___ 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
Fresh-install from -current snapshot: Boot loader too large
Hi, I installed FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140428-r265054-disc1.iso to a VirtualBox i386 VM. I did the most straightforward install you can possibly do (hit enter repeatedly, except for hostname and password). On the first boot I get the following error message: Boot loader too large Note that FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140423-r264794-disc1.iso does not has the problem. -- Jeremie Le Hen Scientists say the world is made up of Protons, Neutrons and Electrons. They forgot to mention Morons. ___ 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
Re: Fresh-install from -current snapshot: Boot loader too large
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 10:24:01AM +0200 I heard the voice of Jeremie Le Hen, and lo! it spake thus: On the first boot I get the following error message: Boot loader too large As I recall, this comes from the freebsd-boot partition being too big, where too big is some unround number like 540k or something odd like that. Make sure that partition is 512k or something smaller. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. ___ 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
