Re: Editing the boot menu

2005-06-09 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jun 08 at 17:42, Jos de Paula Rodrigues spoke: > 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. Grub is heavy. The FreeBsd boot selector is much more efficient. It is more suited for an old laptop.

Re: Editing the boot menu

2005-06-08 Thread Remington L
Just use grub, much easier and more flexible On 6/8/05, Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --On Wednesday, June 08, 2005 17:42:44 -0300 José de Paula Rodrigues > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> From what I gather, these labels come straight from /boot/boot0, not > > from boot0cfg. Lo

Re: Editing the boot menu

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, June 08, 2005 17:42:44 -0300 José de Paula Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: Editing the boot menu

2005-06-08 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jun 08 at 14:17, Paul Schmehl spoke: > When you use FreeBSD's boot manager, you get a menu like this at bootup: > > F1 DOS > F2 FreeBSD > F3 Linux > F4 ?? > F5 Drive 1 > > Default: F2 > > Is there a way to edit the list? Or is that fixed when boot manager is > installed and not configura

Re: Editing the boot menu

2005-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paul Schmehl wrote: When you use FreeBSD's boot manager, you get a menu like this at bootup: F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD F3 Linux F4 ?? F5 Drive 1 Default: F2 Is there a way to edit the list? Or is that fixed when boot manager is installed and not configurable? You have to edit the source. If you

Re: Editing the boot menu

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, June 08, 2005 17:38:36 -0300 Alejandro Pulver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can try using GAG, a Graphical Boot Loader which does not need a slice or partition for installing (it uses a special part of the disk, reserved for things like that), it can be configured while booting,

Re: Editing the boot menu

2005-06-08 Thread José de Paula Rodrigues
On 6/8/05, Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Wednesday, June 08, 2005 16:29:22 -0300 José de Paula Rodrigues > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 6/8/05, Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> When you use FreeBSD's boot manager, you get a menu like this at bootup: > >> > >> F1

Re: Editing the boot menu

2005-06-08 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:17:37 -0500 Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you use FreeBSD's boot manager, you get a menu like this at > bootup: > > F1 DOS > F2 FreeBSD > F3 Linux > F4 ?? > F5 Drive 1 > > Default: F2 > > Is there a way to edit the list? Or is that fixed when boot manage

Re: Editing the boot menu

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, June 08, 2005 16:29:22 -0300 José de Paula Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/8/05, Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When you use FreeBSD's boot manager, you get a menu like this at bootup: F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD F3 Linux F4 ?? F5 Drive 1 Default: F2 Is there a way

Re: Editing the boot menu

2005-06-08 Thread José de Paula Rodrigues
On 6/8/05, Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you use FreeBSD's boot manager, you get a menu like this at bootup: > > F1 DOS > F2 FreeBSD > F3 Linux > F4 ?? > F5 Drive 1 > > Default: F2 > > Is there a way to edit the list? Or is that fixed when boot manager is > installed and not co

Editing the boot menu

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
When you use FreeBSD's boot manager, you get a menu like this at bootup: F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD F3 Linux F4 ?? F5 Drive 1 Default: F2 Is there a way to edit the list? Or is that fixed when boot manager is installed and not configurable? By edit, I mean, for example, change F4 ?? to F4 MyOS. Pau