On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:24:07 -0700 (PDT), Ronnie Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How does one edit the menu options when using the FreeBSD boot menu to dual boot with Windows? Currently mine says: F1: ??? F2: FreeBSD
I searched the archives, but did not find my answer.
I believe that is just what it says when it runs into a NTFS partition.
I'm running http://gag.sourceforge.net/ on my system and found it quite easy to use and also easy to switch which is the default, etc.
Points for searching the archives, but in this case it's an FAQ. :) The bootloader will work even though it just shows question marks. "???" is what it says when it runs into a filesystem that might be NTFS, or it might be OS/2's HPFS filesystem, or even QNX - they all share a filesystem ID number of 7. Other bootloaders such as the NT/XP bootloader, Grub, GAG, etc., are multi-part: one piece lives in the boot sector (which is quite small) and does the booting, and another, larger bit allows you to configure cool stuff like graphics, labels, etc. FreeBSD's bootloader just has the small bit that does the booting. If you want something other than question marks, you can hack the bootloader source (I've never tried and don't know what's involved) or use one of the other available bootloaders, several of which have been mentioned in this thread. The NT/XP loader you already have; GAG is easy and (because it works with RAID) is the one I use ATM; Grub is very configurable and its documentation is useful to learn about bootloaders and the way they work.
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