Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot

2014-08-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Thanks! -a On 24 August 2014 02:21, Joel Dahl wrote: > > 23 aug 2014 kl. 20:45 skrev Adrian Chadd : > >> 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 > __

Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot

2014-08-24 Thread Joel Dahl
23 aug 2014 kl. 20:45 skrev Adrian Chadd : > 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

Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot

2014-08-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
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 >>>

Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot

2014-08-23 Thread Joel Dahl
e 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

Re: Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot

2014-08-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
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' (untest

Boot loader too large with Aug-11 FreeBSD/i386 11-CURRENT snapshot

2014-08-23 Thread Joel Dahl
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

Re: Boot loader too large

2014-07-15 Thread John Baldwin
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 5

Re: Boot loader too large

2014-07-11 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
. # 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 51

Re: Boot loader too large

2014-07-11 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
ot 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 part

Re: Boot loader too large

2014-07-11 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
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 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

Re: Boot loader too large

2014-07-11 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Alie Tan wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alie Tan 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

Re: Boot loader too large

2014-07-11 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Alie Tan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alie Tan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am getting Boot loader too large message while using > > FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140701-r268111-disc1.iso > > > > Is there

Re: Boot loader too large

2014-07-11 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, July 04, 2014 7:07:20 am Alie Tan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alie Tan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am getting Boot loader too large message while using > > FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140701-r268111-disc1.iso > > > > Is there

Boot loader too large

2014-07-04 Thread Alie Tan
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

Re: Boot loader too large

2014-07-04 Thread Alie Tan
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alie Tan 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. w

Re: Fresh-install from -current snapshot: Boot loader too large

2014-05-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
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

Fresh-install from -current snapshot: Boot loader too large

2014-05-08 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
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