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Date:      Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:09:19 -0800
From:      Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>
To:        Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com>
Cc:        lipos@pacific.net.sg, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Modify boot menu options
Message-ID:  <20020402190919.323c5ba3.chip@wiegand.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020403022639.156E437B416@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <3CAA66C9.D6DDC52A@pacific.net.sg> <20020403022639.156E437B416@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:26:23 -0800 Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com>
wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 April 2002 06:19 pm, Vinceido Lipose wrote:
> 
> > F1    FreeBSD
> > F4    Unix
> >
> > I would like to change the options that appears in the boot menu,
> > for eg,
> > from "Unix" to "SCO Unixware".
> 
> If this is FreeBSD's boot manager, then there is no way to do it. The
> entries that you see are according to partition type, not installed
> OS.
> 
> If you want a boot manager with more customization, options, etc., I
> would try grub.
> 
> David

I have a similar situation - at work I set up a box to dual-boot freebsd
and nt. I used the freebsd boot manager and it shows F1 ???
F2 FreeBSD
So, I guess from your response I'm stuck with the ??? ? Though since I
set this up I have yet to boot into nt for anything, been a couple weeks
too.

--
Chip

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