From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 1 17:11:39 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 A46A437B401 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:11:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D366243E4A for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:11:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 991C64FC8A; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 19:54:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 911874A0E; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 19:54:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 19:54:16 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: edifice Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How to see bootloader menu name correct? In-Reply-To: <20030102090459.B083.WAREHOU@sina.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thu, 2 Jan 2003, edifice wrote: > Subject: How to see bootloader menu name correct? > > Dear All, > > I install Win2000 and FreeBSD on my machine. When boot, it display: > F1: ?? > F3: ?? > F4: FreeBSD > How to make the F1 correctly display the name "Windows 2000"? > > Best Regards, > > Edifice > -- > edifice > I believe the FreeBSD bootloader gets it's Fn labels by reading the filesystem type of the partitions, and in your case you get ???s because it doesn't know anything about NTFS. You may be out of luck, unless you want to hack the FreeBSD bootloader and submmit it back to the project :) Seriously though, nobody seems too interested in fixing this issue, understandably. You can still boot ok, correct? Perhaps you could try another bootloader? Be warned that fiddling with your bootloader can have dire consequences for your system... JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message