On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Jordan Gordeev wrote: > On 2/23/10 9:25 PM, Saifi Khan wrote: > > Hi: > > > > i've set up a quad boot system with BSD's installed > > in the following order > > FreeBSD > > DragonFlyBSD > > OpenBSD > > NetBSD > > > > At boot time, the current display is shown as > > . FreeBSD > > . FreeBSD > > . BSD > > . BSD > > > > i'd like to create a custom boot menu, which shows their > > respective names. Any suggestions or pointers ? > > > > > > -- > > thanks > > Saifi. > First, congratulations for managing to get all four BSD's installed on a > single system! It isn't that easy. > > The code that prints the menu you are seeing is crammed into 512 bytes > (actually less). There's simply no space for more functionality. > > NetBSD can show a richer menu, including names picked by you. See mbr(8). > > > -- > Jordan Gordeev >
Yes, i'm aware of the NetBSD menu approach. Since the boot manager displays information on the basis of partition ID, DragonFlyBSD is shown as FreeBSD ! -- thanks Saifi.
