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Subject: Re: bootmgr labels
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Gustaf Sjoberg wrote:

> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 04:21:28 +0100
> From: Gustaf Sjoberg <gs@vacfu.org>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: bootmgr labels
> 
> hi,
> i'm currently dual booting freebsd 4.7 and windows xp pro on my laptop and everything works like a charm except one msall detail. when the boot selector shopws it displays the windows partition as "??".
> 
> F1 -- ??
> F2 -- FreeBSD
> 
> does anyone know how i change them labels?
> 
> thanks in anticipation,
> Gustaf
> 

You can't change them with the standard BSD bootloader, but you *can* use 
another bootloader (e.g. grub). See the list archives for all the gory 
details.

JB

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