Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 08:54:33 -0400 From: "Jud" <jud@myrealbox.com> To: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au Cc: philip@adhesivemedia.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jp@niagrow.com Subject: Re: LILO Message-ID: <1029243273.d0e6c1e0jud@myrealbox.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: Jacob Rhoden <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.= org, Jean-Paul van der Windt <jp@niagrow.com> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:33:44 +1000 Subject: Re: LILO Hi, On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 08:42, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > I think it's a disklabel(8) thing, but I don't have an extra box lying > > around to test it on. disklabel is a powerful and dangerous thing ;-) > I don't think it is... I've seen a couple of replies to this indicating > that it' I am not sure, but I am fairly certian, that the labels in the boot manager= =20 are displayed based on the partion type. So if its a freebsd partion type i= t=20 says freebsd, fat32, it says DOS, if its XP I get ??. I assume that is=20 because that partion type is not entered into the boot manager code.=20 (Each 'partion type' has a unique identifier number, ie i think freebsd's c= ode=20 is 69 or something, its been a while since I looked at all that.) =20 Jacob Rhoden Phone: +61 3 9844 6102 ITS Division Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ FreeBSD partition type is 165. NTFS (Win NT/2K/XP) is 7, but so are QNX and an OS/2 file system. There apparently isn't room for all of these options in the bootloader, but if you were ambitious you could hack the source to display what you wanted. Or you could use a bootloader that allows easier configuration of the boot menu, like Grub or the NT bootloader. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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