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Date:      Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:38:36 -0300
From:      Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz>
To:        Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Editing the boot menu
Message-ID:  <20050608173836.7584f8ee@phobos.mars.bsd>
In-Reply-To: <0DF7FF668F71A2B85D47F59B@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
References:  <0DF7FF668F71A2B85D47F59B@utd59514.utdallas.edu>

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On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:17:37 -0500
Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote:

> When you use FreeBSD's boot manager, you get a menu like this at
> bootup:
> 
> F1 DOS
> F2 FreeBSD
> F3 Linux
> F4 ??
> F5 Drive 1
> 
> Default: F2
> 
> Is there a way to edit the list?  Or is that fixed when boot manager
> is  installed and not configurable?
> 
> By edit, I mean, for example, change F4 ?? to F4 MyOS.
> 

Hello,

You can try using GAG, a Graphical Boot Loader which does not need a
slice or partition for installing (it uses a special part of the disk,
reserved for things like that), it can be configured while booting,
self uninstalled (restoring the previous bootloader) and supports a lot
of operating systems. Of course, it is free and open-source.

http://gag.sourceforge.net/

It is the *best* bootloader (for booting more than one operating
systems) I have found (I have tried BootMagic, Lilo and Grub).

Best Regards,
Ale



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