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To: Yatin Patil <yatin.patil@windriver.com>
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Subject: Re: Boot Manager configuration
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Yatin Patil <yatin.patil@windriver.com> types:
> Hi,
> 
> 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 
> 
> F1: ??
> F2: FreeBSD
> 
> I'd like to do two things -
> 
>    1. Change ?? to Windows2000

You'll need to fix the boot0 program - sources are in
/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.s - to recognize the NTFS partition
type and print the string you want.

>    2. Increase (or disable) the timeout before it boots the OS you 
>       booted previously.

Use the -t option of the boot0cfg command to do that. See the man page
for more information.

Alternatively, you could install a more general boot manager that lets
you configure names for different boot sequences. I personally use
GRUB, but there are a number of others available.

	<mike
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