From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 3 8:47:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3901837B409 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 08:47:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2915 invoked by uid 100); 3 Sep 2001 15:47:43 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15251.42527.586658.49658@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 10:47:43 -0500 To: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader In-Reply-To: <35636618@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong types: > Hi ; > How do I change the prompt message ? > My current prompt message look like this ... > > F1 : FreeBSD > F2 : ? > Default : F1 > Boot : > > I would lilke the "?" mark to more meanning text , how do I change it > ? Please advise .... The default boot loader is pretty minimal. There are alternatives available. Personally, I use grub, which is in the ports tree. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message