From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 15 21:17:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA82F37B401 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 21:17:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E81243E77 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 21:17:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sat, 16 Nov 2002 05:17:19 +0000 Received: from cream.org (unverified [62.31.98.15]) by pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with ESMTP id ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 05:17:19 +0000 Message-ID: <3DD5D4FE.8030905@cream.org> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 05:17:50 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Von Essen Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot manager... References: <62D4530A-F918-11D6-9AE2-0003933DDCFA@essenz.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Von Essen wrote: > > Im curious about something. On my machine, the freebsd boot manager > displays something like: > > F1 FreeBSD > F2 DOS > F5 Drive 1 > > Nothing will boot on F5, its just an extra drive I use for my /usr > mount. Question is... is it possible to change that "Drive 1" label to > something else? If so, I would like to know how to do it. Thanks... Sorry, John, unless you want to edit the source yourself - you can't. The FreeBSD Boot Manager is famous for being pretty inflexible and not configurable. Essentially, it does the job it's supposed to do with minimum fuss. All that is happening is the the manager is realising you have an extra drive and is giving you the opportunity to have a go at booting it. If you want to be able to configure your boot to your heart's content - you might want to check out boot managers from the Linux world like GRUB. I think they may be in the ports collection.... Best of luck. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message