From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 22 4: 5:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F3BA37B401 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 04:05:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from iedowse@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 22 Jun 2001 12:05:22 +0100 (BST) To: so@server.i-clue.de Cc: Yatin Patil , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager configuration In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:04:09 +0200." <3B330A09.61EC8AF3@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:05:21 +0100 From: Ian Dowse Message-ID: <200106221205.aa88381@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message