Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:38:36 -0300 From: Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Editing the boot menu Message-ID: <20050608173836.7584f8ee@phobos.mars.bsd> In-Reply-To: <0DF7FF668F71A2B85D47F59B@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <0DF7FF668F71A2B85D47F59B@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:17:37 -0500 Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote: > When you use FreeBSD's boot manager, you get a menu like this at > bootup: > > F1 DOS > F2 FreeBSD > F3 Linux > F4 ?? > F5 Drive 1 > > Default: F2 > > Is there a way to edit the list? Or is that fixed when boot manager > is installed and not configurable? > > By edit, I mean, for example, change F4 ?? to F4 MyOS. > Hello, You can try using GAG, a Graphical Boot Loader which does not need a slice or partition for installing (it uses a special part of the disk, reserved for things like that), it can be configured while booting, self uninstalled (restoring the previous bootloader) and supports a lot of operating systems. Of course, it is free and open-source. http://gag.sourceforge.net/ It is the *best* bootloader (for booting more than one operating systems) I have found (I have tried BootMagic, Lilo and Grub). Best Regards, Ale
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