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Date:      Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:54:52 +0200
From:      Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Editing the boot menu
Message-ID:  <20050608205452.GA8087@gicco.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <0DF7FF668F71A2B85D47F59B@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
References:  <0DF7FF668F71A2B85D47F59B@utd59514.utdallas.edu>

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  On Jun 08 at 14:17, Paul Schmehl spoke:

> When you use FreeBSD's boot manager, you get a menu like this at bootup:
> 
> F1 DOS
> F2 FreeBSD
> F3 Linux
> F4 ??
> F5 Drive 1
> 
> Default: F2
> 
> Is there a way to edit the list?  Or is that fixed when boot manager is 
> installed and not configurable?
> 
> By edit, I mean, for example, change F4 ?? to F4 MyOS.

This boot selector has no configuration file. It resides within the
512 Byte MBR.
You may change Lables by editing
/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S.
It's probably easier if you don't touch the length of the label.
After making boot0 copy it to /boot and run boot0cfg.

-Hanspeter



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