From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 16:30:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.27in.tv (roc-24-169-198-248.rochester.rr.com [24.169.198.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A80B37B408 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.27in.tv (8.12.3/8.11.6) id g55NUZaM040696; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:30:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from maxpower (cjm2@maxpower.lan.27in.tv [10.0.0.20]) by mail.27in.tv (8.12.3/8.11.6av) with SMTP id g55NUYTI040682; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:30:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) From: "C J Michaels" To: "Mark Miller" Cc: Subject: RE: BootMgr with Win2k? Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:31:00 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020605215307.GA43707@dan.emsphone.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 Not for anything, but the NT boot loader can boot to freebsd and it has 'wordy' prompts too. --Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dan Nelson > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 5:53 PM > To: Mark Miller > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: BootMgr with Win2k? > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message