RE: How to make the boot menu just like I want?
-Original Message- From: Frederick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your help! Frederick. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to make the boot menu just like I want?
Am Montag, 11. Oktober 2004 13:03 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] 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 can highly recommend gag! (http://gag.sourceforge.net/) -Harry 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your help! Frederick. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpagrAfcPcFJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to make the boot menu just like I want?
[Frederick, 2004-10-11] 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. : So please help me to find the partition number(subtype), or tell me how to do that to make the change. The FreeBSD boot manager is a very small program that lives entirely within the bootsector of the disk. It is therefore only one sector in size, or 512 bytes. To change the boot menu, you would have to reqrite this program. The source code is in: /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S Note, however, that this program is allready exactly 512 bytes when compiled, so for every byte you put in, you need to take another one out. On my laptop I've recompiled the boot0 program to display Diag for the Dell diagnostic service partition, XP in place of DOS, and FreeBSD for my FreeBSD partition. To get room for the Diag selecttion, I had to remove Linux from the list. I think I've lost my patches, but the boot sector code has been living happily and undisturbed on the boot sector through alot of system updates. Please be careful when replacing the boot sector. Your system may become unbootable, and you would have to resort to boot disks to get it back. Cheers, Svein Halvor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
