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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