> > never underestimate the human stupidity (mine in this case) nor of the boot.
> > pmbr will load the whole partition, which was 1M, instead of the size of
> > gptboot :-(
> >
> > reducing the size of the slice/partition fixed the issue.
>
> pmbr doesn't have room to be but so smart. It can't parse a filesystem, so
> it
> just loads a raw partition assuming that the partition is the boot loader.
> The 545k bit has to do with where it is loaded. The boot loader has to live
> in the lower 640k, but it starts at 0x7c00 (the address that the BIOS always
> loads boot loaders). The 545k limit comes from 640k - 0x7c00. This is a
> fundamental limit of the x86 BIOS architecture. Compared to the 15.5k that
> UFS leaves for boot2 it is worlds of space.
thanks for the info.
If the error message was clearer might have saved
some time :-)
Partition size too big
instead of
Boot loader too large
btw, thanks to grep -r I was to find it came from pmbr.s
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