From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 18 5:38:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-40-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0340153E5; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 05:38:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id PAA08211; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:34:05 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199903181334.PAA08211@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: [Boot manager questions] In-Reply-To: from Peter Schmidt at "Mar 18, 99 11:00:31 am" To: peter@SchmidtP.rbh.nthames.nhs.uk (Peter Schmidt) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:34:03 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Following up to -bugs] Peter Schmidt wrote: > Hi: > I just upgraded my machine from FreeBSD 2.2.7 to FreeBSD 3.1 (stable > release) and encountered a few problems: > > 1.) I have Windows NT Server installed as well. So when booting up > the boot manager prints something like > F1 NTFS (or the like) > F2 FreeBSD > > Now after installing I get > F1 ?? > F2 FreeBSD > However I can still boot into NT. > Is there any way to change this and configure the printout > to something other than "??" ? > > I know that the Linux boot manager LILO can be configured in such > a way that you can type in any name you care to think of. The sources are available in src/sys/boot/i386/boot0, so it would be a 5-minute job to patch the file (by replacing an existing table entry) and rebuild. Or you could install BootEasy itself: which should still be available in the "tools" directory on CD-ROM or ftp.freebsd.org. The present FreeBSD boot manager is a single-sector program which must fit into the 448 bytes left over on the master boot record (MBR) of the disk, so it does not provide features similar to LILO. However, a more powerful boot manager is currently in preparation, which will allow customized menu options, among other things. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message