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Subject: docs/31480: Lots of people want to know how to change the booteasy prompts
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>Number:         31480
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Lots of people want to know how to change the booteasy prompts
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 24 10:10:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mike Meyer
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Meyer Consulting
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD guru.mired.org 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #2: Sun Oct 21 19:17:42 CDT 2001 mwm@guru.mired.org:/sharetmp/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386


>Description:
	There's no FAQ entry on how to change the boot prompt(s) for booteasy.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Hang out in -questions until you're tired of telling people
	that booteasy won't let them change the boot prompt.

>Fix:
	Apply the attached patch to  faq/book.sgml

--- book.sgml.orig	Wed Oct 24 11:56:41 2001
+++ book.sgml	Wed Oct 24 12:03:12 2001
@@ -7202,6 +7202,20 @@
 	  </itemizedlist>
 	</answer>
       </qandaentry>
+
+      <qandaentry>
+        <question id="changing-bootprompt">
+          <para>How do I change the boot prompt from <literal>???</literal> to
+            something more meaningful?</para>
+        </question>
+
+        <answer>
+          <para>You can't do that with the standard boot manager without
+            rewriting it. There are a number of other boot managers
+	    in the <filename>sysutils</filename> ports category that
+	    provide that functionality.</para>
+        </answer>
+      </qandaentry>
     </qandaset>
   </chapter>
 

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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