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Date:      Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:53:07 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Mark Miller <joup@bigfoot.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BootMgr with Win2k?
Message-ID:  <20020605215307.GA43707@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020605144647.G61949-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu>
References:  <20020605144647.G61949-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu>

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In the last episode (Jun 05), Mark Miller said:
> 
> I recently reinstalled my Win2k partition, and it appears that it
> overwrote the boot manager sector.  What's the easiest way to get this
> back?  Also, how can I change the names that the boot manager displays?
> Before, I got something like
> 
> F1: ????
> F2: FreeBSD
> F5: Disk1
> 
> I'd like to have it look like
> 
> F1: Win2k
> F2: FreeBSD 5.0
> F5: FreeBSD 4.6

boot0 can't do this; it's only a 512-byte program.  There's not enough
space for fancy prompts.  If you want custom menus, try grub (in
ports).  It's very flexible and has a full-screen menu.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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