From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 1 7:10:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from borg.vcsa.org (borg.vcsa.org [12.10.83.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B2037B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:10:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from query@vcsa.org) Received: from vcsa.org (localhost.lenox.vcsa.org [127.0.0.1]) by borg.vcsa.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f71E7LW86558 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:07:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from query@vcsa.org) Message-Id: <200108011407.f71E7LW86558@borg.vcsa.org> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:07:21 -0000 To: Subject: Boot Loader Operating System Detection From: "Nostrebor Cire" X-Mailer: TWIG 2.6.2 Reply-To: query@vcsa.org 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 This is not really important, but I just thought I'd ask for curiosity's sake. How does the FreeBSD boot loader determine the Operating System type of the Partitions it sees? I have to machines that dual boot between 2000 and FreeBSD with a single hard drive. When my laptop boots up I get a prompt something like: F1: Windows NT F2: FreeBSD But on my desktop I get: F1: ?? F2: FreeBSD Booting to the NTFS partition on the desktop works fine. I was just wondering how the boot loader decides to label the partition types. -- http://www.vcsa.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message