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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
cc: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper), current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: modifying boot mgrs FROM FREEBSD 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Aug 1997 22:50:01 +0930."
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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 08:21:37 +1000
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From: George Michaelson <ggm@connect.com.au>
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  Randall Hopper stands accused of saying:
  > George Michaelson:
  >  |So how can you tune the bootmgrs from within FreeBSD? Sure, lotsa recipes
  
  "tune"?  Can you be more specific?

Four things:

	1) at next boot, which of the menu of boot choices is to be the
	   default ie under reboot, do you boot back into THIS unix or into
	   W95, DOS, NetBSD, Linux etc

	2) change the flag marking if the MBR is to be updated to reflect
	   the current boot choice as the live preference. This is different
	   to the above which states WHICH secondary boot is to be used, this
	   marks if any alternate boot is actually taken because of keyboard
	   selection, that the selection becomes the active default boot

	3) change the textual stringprompts against each option

	4) change which bootable partitions appear in the menu of choices
  
-George