John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, edifice wrote: > > Subject: How to see bootloader menu name correct? > > > > Dear All, > > > > I install Win2000 and FreeBSD on my machine. When boot, it display: > > F1: ?? > > F3: ?? > > F4: FreeBSD > > How to make the F1 correctly display the name "Windows 2000"? > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Edifice > > -- > > edifice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I believe the FreeBSD bootloader gets it's Fn labels by reading the > filesystem type of the partitions, and in your case you get ???s because > it doesn't know anything about NTFS. You may be out of luck, unless you > want to hack the FreeBSD bootloader and submmit it back to the project :)
There are about a half-dozen bytes free in the bootloader, which isn't even enough to store "Windows 2000". Anyone who submits that code back will impress *me* a hell of a lot. This is a FAQ. "How do I change the boot prompt from ??? to something more meaningful?": http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#CHANGING-BOOTPROMPT To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
