From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 15 20:46:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A3A337B401 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 20:46:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from jeeves.velosystems.net (wsip68-15-85-238.oc.oc.cox.net [68.15.85.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9504C43E42 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 20:46:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stevew@velosystems.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.velosystems.net [127.0.0.1]) by jeeves.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118A4A551; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 20:45:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from daemon.velosystems.net (daemon.velosystems.net [192.168.1.11]) by jeeves.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D9EA524; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 20:45:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Boot manager... From: Steve Wingate To: John Von Essen Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <62D4530A-F918-11D6-9AE2-0003933DDCFA@essenz.com> References: <62D4530A-F918-11D6-9AE2-0003933DDCFA@essenz.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 15 Nov 2002 20:45:55 -0800 Message-Id: <1037421956.15224.1.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 20:03, John Von Essen wrote: > > Im curious about something. On my machine, the freebsd boot manager > displays something like: > > F1 FreeBSD > F2 DOS > F5 Drive 1 > > Nothing will boot on F5, its just an extra drive I use for my /usr mount. > Question is... is it possible to change that "Drive 1" label to something > else? If so, I would like to know how to do it. Thanks... > It's possible to edit the boot menu, but it's not really worth what you have to do to do it. It's a very convoluted process; better to try one of the alternative boot mgr's in the ports tree. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message