From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 3 8:45:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.home.nl (mail4.home.nl [213.51.129.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1A437B41E for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 08:45:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from cp102898-A.euro-army.org ([212.120.94.249]) by mail4.home.nl (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20020403164424.FWTL29932.mail4.home.nl@cp102898-A.euro-army.org>; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:44:24 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020403182940.00b84d60@pop3.euro-army.org> X-Sender: 784785@pop3.euro-army.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:43:24 +0200 To: Chip Wiegand , Johnson David From: Muad_Dib Subject: Re: Modify boot menu options Cc: lipos@pacific.net.sg, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020402190919.323c5ba3.chip@wiegand.org> References: <20020403022639.156E437B416@hub.freebsd.org> <3CAA66C9.D6DDC52A@pacific.net.sg> <20020403022639.156E437B416@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 19:09 2-4-2002 -0800, Chip Wiegand wrote: >On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:26:23 -0800 Johnson David >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 Indead in my opinion GRUB is the best solution. You can even use the standard "windows" mbr, and install GRUB to a floppy which invokes the kernel on your harddisk. There are quite a few site containing very good GRUB install instructions. A general GRUB manual: http://www.mcc.ac.uk/grub/grub_toc.html Article by Georg Wagner: http://www.daemonnews.org/200102/grub.html Also try google ;) Muad-Dib To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message