Date: 01 Jan 2003 20:44:45 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to see bootloader menu name correct? Message-ID: <448yy4nx4i.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301011951240.19553-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301011951240.19553-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> writes: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, edifice wrote: > > Subject: How to see bootloader menu name correct? > > > > Dear All, > > > > I install Win2000 and FreeBSD on my machine. When boot, it display: > > F1: ?? > > F3: ?? > > F4: FreeBSD > > How to make the F1 correctly display the name "Windows 2000"? > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Edifice > > -- > > edifice <warehou@sina.com> > > > > I believe the FreeBSD bootloader gets it's Fn labels by reading the > filesystem type of the partitions, and in your case you get ???s because > it doesn't know anything about NTFS. You may be out of luck, unless you > want to hack the FreeBSD bootloader and submmit it back to the project :) There are about a half-dozen bytes free in the bootloader, which isn't even enough to store "Windows 2000". Anyone who submits that code back will impress *me* a hell of a lot. This is a FAQ. "How do I change the boot prompt from ??? to something more meaningful?": http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#CHANGING-BOOTPROMPT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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