From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 14:53:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8322D37B409 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 14:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.3) id g55Lr7Lx078507; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:53:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:53:07 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Mark Miller Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BootMgr with Win2k? Message-ID: <20020605215307.GA43707@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020605144647.G61949-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020605144647.G61949-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message