Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 10:23:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/38826: RFE: BootMgr should provide more identifying info (see also docs/38816) Message-ID: <200206021423.g52ENlH02012@guest.reppep.com>
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>Number: 38826 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: RFE: BootMgr should provide more identifying info (see also docs/38816) >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jun 02 07:30:01 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Chris Pepper >Release: FreeBSD 4.6-RC i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD guest.reppep.com 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #0: Fri May 31 22:33:23 EDT 2002 root@guest.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: BootMgr should be somewhat smarter about identifying boot options. Currently, BootMgr offers me something like: F1: ?? F2: ?? F3: FreeBSD F4: FreeBSD It would be better if BootMgr could identify F3 as having a bootable / partition, and F4 as non-bootable, F2 as Windows XP, and F1 as a Compaq/HP utility partition (not apparently bootable from BootMgr). >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: How does BootMgr identify partitions now? By tag number, or something else? If by tag number, it should be able to identify NTFS, ext3, and Compaq utility partitions. Alternatively, sysinstall might allow users to provide names for otherwise unrecognized partitions, but these could become out of date over time. Additionally, it would be very useful if BootMgr could identify bootable vs. non-bootable FreeBSD partitions (perhaps just by the presence of a root fs?), and/or the version of FreeBSD installed on each, although this may not be feasible. I'd like to have one partition for -STABLE and another for testing, and it would be great if BootMgr could help keep them straight. Note: this RFE was spun out of docs/38816. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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