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Date:      Mon, 03 Feb 2003 23:50:29 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Anand Buddhdev" <arb@anand.org>, "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Changing the FreeBSD boot loader options
Message-ID:  <20030204045045.3830648463@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030203103023.GX9710@anand.org>

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On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:30:23 +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

>I have installed FreeBSD 4.7 on my desktop, which already had windows
>2000 on it in a partition. I also have a second IDE disk in the computer.
>
>Upon boot, I get the following menu:
>
>F1 FreeBSD (default)
>F2 DOS
>F5 Disk 1
>
>How do I rename the label for F2 from DOS to Windows, and how do I
>eliminate F5, since it is not needed? I read the manpage for boot0cfg,
>but I couldn't figure out how to do it. Or do I need another boot manager
>like grub?

you can't really. 

from what people have posted before, there isn't enough space in the
MBR to do that.

You would probably need to go with grub, although I have never used it,
I think you'd be a lot better off.  my freebsd machine is seperate from
my win machine, so i have my drive DD'd

---
doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net



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