From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 6:26:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D37637B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 06:26:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D520C43ED1 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 06:26:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gBAEQLB18194; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:26:21 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200212101426.gBAEQLB18194@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Boot Menu question To: potzilov@softhome.net (Sergey Niunco) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:26:21 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021210102104.64d80d79.potzilov@softhome.net> from "Sergey Niunco" at Dec 10, 2002 10:21:04 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > Hello! > > When I start my system I have a choise of 2 OS's: > > F1: ??? > F3: FreeBSD > > The question is how do i change "???" to "Win2000"? This is a frequent question, so there is a lot in the archives on it. But, briefly, the boot manager was written before W2K (and W-XP, etc) and so, doesn't have a name for them. It can boot them as long as they use a "standard" boot sequence. It just doesn't know what to call them. To change that, either you or someone else will have to modify the boot manager code to add recognition of those, or you have to install a different boot manager that knows about them. There are several, some rather overblown. I see one called 'grub' mentioned quite often, but haven't used it. It would be nice if someone who know something about the insides of these things got around to adding recognition of W2K and W-XP and maybe a couple of others hint hint hint. (But, I doubt that I will ever learn enough or get around to it) ////jerry > TIA. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message