From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 20:48:45 2003 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 24DA837B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:48:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F0C43F43 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <2003020404484200200i4bp2e>; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 04:48:42 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3830648463; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 23:50:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Anand Buddhdev" , "questions@freebsd.org" Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 23:50:29 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <20030203103023.GX9710@anand.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Changing the FreeBSD boot loader options Message-Id: <20030204045045.3830648463@wastegate.net> 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 On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:30:23 +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote: >I have installed FreeBSD 4.7 on my desktop, which already had windows >2000 on it in a partition. I also have a second IDE disk in the computer. > >Upon boot, I get the following menu: > >F1 FreeBSD (default) >F2 DOS >F5 Disk 1 > >How do I rename the label for F2 from DOS to Windows, and how do I >eliminate F5, since it is not needed? I read the manpage for boot0cfg, >but I couldn't figure out how to do it. Or do I need another boot manager >like grub? you can't really. from what people have posted before, there isn't enough space in the MBR to do that. You would probably need to go with grub, although I have never used it, I think you'd be a lot better off. my freebsd machine is seperate from my win machine, so i have my drive DD'd --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message