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Subject: Re: Editing the boot menu
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--On Wednesday, June 08, 2005 17:42:44 -0300 Jos=E9 de Paula Rodrigues=20
<espinafre@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From what I gather, these labels come straight from /boot/boot0, not
> from boot0cfg. Looking at the boot0 source code (found at
> /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S), you can see that the OS options
> are hard-coded into the boot0 program, so there is no way to edit that
> other than by changing the source code and recompiling.
>
 I see that now.  Thanks for pointing that out.

> Did you try using Grub instead? It now supports UFS2, and is a great
> bootloader, with lots of features. You can find it in your ports tree.

It's not that big of an issue.  It's just my workstation, and I know what=20
?? means.  I was just being anal.  I like to straighten out twisted phone=20
cords too.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
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University of Texas at Dallas
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http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/