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

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Thu May 8 08:34:57 UTC 2014


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)   |  fullermd at over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.


More information about the freebsd-current mailing list