Date: 24 Oct 2001 17:05:55 -0000 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/31480: Lots of people want to know how to change the booteasy prompts Message-ID: <20011024170555.94942.qmail@guru.mired.org>
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>Number: 31480
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Lots of people want to know how to change the booteasy prompts
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Oct 24 10:10:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Mike Meyer
>Release: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Meyer Consulting
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD guru.mired.org 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #2: Sun Oct 21 19:17:42 CDT 2001 mwm@guru.mired.org:/sharetmp/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
There's no FAQ entry on how to change the boot prompt(s) for booteasy.
>How-To-Repeat:
Hang out in -questions until you're tired of telling people
that booteasy won't let them change the boot prompt.
>Fix:
Apply the attached patch to faq/book.sgml
--- book.sgml.orig Wed Oct 24 11:56:41 2001
+++ book.sgml Wed Oct 24 12:03:12 2001
@@ -7202,6 +7202,20 @@
</itemizedlist>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
+
+ <qandaentry>
+ <question id="changing-bootprompt">
+ <para>How do I change the boot prompt from <literal>???</literal> to
+ something more meaningful?</para>
+ </question>
+
+ <answer>
+ <para>You can't do that with the standard boot manager without
+ rewriting it. There are a number of other boot managers
+ in the <filename>sysutils</filename> ports category that
+ provide that functionality.</para>
+ </answer>
+ </qandaentry>
</qandaset>
</chapter>
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