From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 17:55:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C7D37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:55:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out004.verizon.net (out004pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97DC043FAF for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:55:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@pcmedx.com) Received: from duron.pcmedx.com ([4.46.1.67]) by out004.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030808005513.PIPI14849.out004.verizon.net@duron.pcmedx.com>; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 19:55:13 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8AF2ACBC; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mike (mike.pcmedx.com [192.168.240.244]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 14287AB31; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <000801c35d47$b58af5b0$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> From: "Mike Maltese" To: References: <009401c35d45$737945c0$0d01a8c0@AZNG13> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:55:06 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd (http://www.amavis.org) and f-prot (http://www.f-prot.com) at pcmedx.com X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [4.46.1.67] at Thu, 7 Aug 2003 19:55:13 -0500 cc: John Cessor Subject: Re: dual boot winxp and FreeBSD boot menu X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 00:55:15 -0000 I think this is normal. I have a dual-boot Win2K/FreeBSD box and the NTFS partition is also represented by ???. FAT partitions show up as DOS or MS-DOS I believe. I remember looking into this also, but I think it's hard-coded. Maybe you could install GRUB and use that as your boot loader? ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cessor" To: Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 5:38 PM Subject: dual boot winxp and FreeBSD boot menu > Hello > I have just finished installing FreeBSD 5.1 on a second hard > drive, windows XP is on the first. I installed the boot loader on > the MBR and everything works great, however when I boot the > computer up I see that windows is represented by ??? I have > looked around some on the internet but havent found the name of > the file that will allow me to define what is there. Can anyone > point me in the correct direction? > Thanks > JohnC > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"