Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:30:36 -0700 From: Remington L <mrl0lz@gmail.com> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Editing the boot menu Message-ID: <fe18b228050608143081b1ed5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <027C3C0D48F76DE75B544666@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <0DF7FF668F71A2B85D47F59B@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <5ef8c2f00506081229384d1be8@mail.gmail.com> <B2EC37C39F9F5B22D56ED00E@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <5ef8c2f005060813423f7728c0@mail.gmail.com> <027C3C0D48F76DE75B544666@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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Just use grub, much easier and more flexible On 6/8/05, Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote: >=20 > --On Wednesday, June 08, 2005 17:42:44 -0300 Jos=E9 de Paula Rodrigues > <espinafre@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> From what I gather, these labels come straight from /boot/boot0, not > > from boot0cfg. Looking at the boot0 source code (found at > > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S), you can see that the OS options > > are hard-coded into the boot0 program, so there is no way to edit that > > other than by changing the source code and recompiling. > > > I see that now. Thanks for pointing that out. >=20 > > Did you try using Grub instead? It now supports UFS2, and is a great > > bootloader, with lots of features. You can find it in your ports tree. >=20 > It's not that big of an issue. It's just my workstation, and I know what > ?? means. I was just being anal. I like to straighten out twisted phone > cords too. >=20 > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > Adjunct Information Security Officer > University of Texas at Dallas > AVIEN Founding Member > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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