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Date:      Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:05:21 +0100
From:      Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        so@server.i-clue.de
Cc:        Yatin Patil <yatin.patil@windriver.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot Manager configuration 
Message-ID:   <200106221205.aa88381@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:04:09 %2B0200." <3B330A09.61EC8AF3@i-clue.de> 

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In message <3B330A09.61EC8AF3@i-clue.de>, Christoph Sold writes:
>> I want to know how to configure the boot manager that installed with
>> FreeBSD (4.3 RELEASE). My system has Windows2000 and FreeBSD on it.
>> The boot manager works just fine but it is apparently not able to
>> recognize the NTFS partition. The boot manager displays
>
>Unfortunately, the standard bootmanager installed with FreeBSD
>(BootEasy) is not configurable. In addition, it is coded in Assembler,
>and has to fit into the boot sector. Thus it won't be easy to modify it
>to recognize Win2K partitions.

Not quite true... "man boot0cfg" for further details. You are correct
that changing the partition type names is not easy though.

Ian

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