From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 2 19: 8:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E00B37B41E for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:08:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from chip3.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id A217F67300DC; Tue, 02 Apr 2002 19:08:07 -0800 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:09:19 -0800 From: Chip Wiegand To: Johnson David Cc: lipos@pacific.net.sg, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modify boot menu options Message-Id: <20020402190919.323c5ba3.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <20020403022639.156E437B416@hub.freebsd.org> References: <3CAA66C9.D6DDC52A@pacific.net.sg> <20020403022639.156E437B416@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:26:23 -0800 Johnson David wrote: > On Tuesday 02 April 2002 06:19 pm, Vinceido Lipose wrote: > > > F1 FreeBSD > > F4 Unix > > > > I would like to change the options that appears in the boot menu, > > for eg, > > from "Unix" to "SCO Unixware". > > If this is FreeBSD's boot manager, then there is no way to do it. The > entries that you see are according to partition type, not installed > OS. > > If you want a boot manager with more customization, options, etc., I > would try grub. > > David I have a similar situation - at work I set up a box to dual-boot freebsd and nt. I used the freebsd boot manager and it shows F1 ??? F2 FreeBSD So, I guess from your response I'm stuck with the ??? ? Though since I set this up I have yet to boot into nt for anything, been a couple weeks too. -- Chip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message