On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:21+0200, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> hi,
> this is the output from gpart show:
> => 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (465G)
> 34 2048 1 freebsd-boot (1.0M)
> 2082 4194304 2 freebsd-ufs [bootme] (2.0G)
> 4196386 12582912 3 freebsd-swap (6.0G)
> 16779298 959993837 4 freebsd-zfs (457G)
>
> => 34 976773101 ada1 GPT (465G)
> 34 2048 1 freebsd-boot (1.0M)
> 2082 4194304 2 freebsd-ufs (2.0G)
> 4196386 12582912 3 freebsd-swap (6.0G)
> 16779298 959993837 4 freebsd-zfs (457G)
>
> I also did:
> gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada0
>
> I'm trying to boot and get
> Boot loader too large
>
> not matter if I boot from disk or pxe.
> The pmbr is 512 bytes, so what causes it to overshoot?
> I don't know x86 assembler (nor want to :-), but the comment says:
> 545k should be enough
> so what's going on?
> thanks,
> danny
A freebsd-boot partition must never be larger than 128K, i.e. 65536
512B blocks.
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