Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 19:30:47 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: Mark Miller <joup@bigfoot.com>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BootMgr with Win2k? Message-ID: <2W1WLIIHGFXWWUWS06IEPM95XV214Y1.3cfe9f27@sparky> In-Reply-To: <20020605215307.GA43707@dan.emsphone.com>
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6/5/2002 5:53:07 PM, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: >In the last episode (Jun 05), Mark Miller said: >> >> I recently reinstalled my Win2k partition, and it appears that it >> overwrote the boot manager sector. What's the easiest way to get this >> back? Also, how can I change the names that the boot manager displays? >> Before, I got something like >> >> F1: ???? >> F2: FreeBSD >> F5: Disk1 >> >> I'd like to have it look like >> >> F1: Win2k >> F2: FreeBSD 5.0 >> F5: FreeBSD 4.6 > >boot0 can't do this; it's only a 512-byte program. There's not enough >space for fancy prompts. If you want custom menus, try grub (in >ports). It's very flexible and has a full-screen menu. > >-- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com As someone once pointed out to me, if it can write the ?????? then it has enough room to write 'W2K' or 'Win2K.' But you'd have to get into the bootloader source and revise it to output what you want rather than '?????' when it encounters a Type 7 filesystem. (OS/2's HPFS, Windows' NTFS, and I believe QNX's filesystem all show up as Type 7 - the bootloader can't tell which, so it outputs '?????.') Short of that, use grub or Win2K's bootloader. Re your other question, boot from the install floppies or the fixit CD and reinstall the FreeBSD boot manager; or just write a normal MBR if you want to use grub, then install grub from /usr/ports/sysutils/grub. If you want to use Win2K's bootloader, follow the directions in the FAQ at the FreeBSD web site. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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