Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 08:21:37 +1000 From: George Michaelson <ggm@connect.com.au> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper), current@freebsd.org, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: modifying boot mgrs FROM FREEBSD Message-ID: <27541.870906097@connect.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Aug 1997 22:50:01 %2B0930." <199708061320.WAA08867@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Randall Hopper stands accused of saying: > George Michaelson: > |So how can you tune the bootmgrs from within FreeBSD? Sure, lotsa recipes "tune"? Can you be more specific? Four things: 1) at next boot, which of the menu of boot choices is to be the default ie under reboot, do you boot back into THIS unix or into W95, DOS, NetBSD, Linux etc 2) change the flag marking if the MBR is to be updated to reflect the current boot choice as the live preference. This is different to the above which states WHICH secondary boot is to be used, this marks if any alternate boot is actually taken because of keyboard selection, that the selection becomes the active default boot 3) change the textual stringprompts against each option 4) change which bootable partitions appear in the menu of choices -George
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