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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:03:41 +0300
From:      JohnsoBS@vicksburg.navy.mil
To:        frederickp@synology.com, FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: How to make the boot menu just like I want?
Message-ID:  <CE2BFBAA80DD874BB737A4E2C53AA44903B018B9@CG69UBD01>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederick [mailto:frederickp@synology.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 12:34 PM
> To: FreeBSD-questions
> Subject: How to make the boot menu just like I want?
> 
> 
> Dear FreeBSD Team:
> This is Frederick. Is there any table to list the partition 
> number(subtype) or sysid?
> I have two hard disks. The first one install windows, and the 
> second one install freebsd. 
> I first install windows, then install freebsd. I use boot 
> manager to manage my boot.
> 
> The menu shows:
> F1: DOS
> F5: Drive 1
> 
> I want the menu to show like:
> F1: Windows
> F5 Drive 1

The FreeBSD bootloader doesn't have this capability as
far as I am aware of. Your best best is to use the Windows
boot loader, install grub, lilo or some other boot manager that
has user configurable options for just this thing.

> 
> I did something. I changed the subtype in the fdisk, 6, 7, 
> 12, 13, 14...
> but I can't make my menu just like I want.
> 
> So please help me to find the partition number(subtype), or 
> tell me how to do that
> to make the change.
> 
> Please reply me to the following mail address:
> frederickpon@hotmail.com
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Frederick.
> 
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