From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 1 17:44:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE4A37B401 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:44:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 919F243EC5 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:44:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <20030102014447053002ejkve>; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 01:44:48 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h021ikGZ031465 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:44:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h021ikBo031462; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:44:46 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to see bootloader menu name correct? References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 01 Jan 2003 20:44:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <448yy4nx4i.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 John Bleichert 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 > > > > 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