FreeBSD 5.1 PowerPak Installation problem

Ion-Mihai Tetcu itetcu at apropo.ro
Mon Dec 22 05:34:44 PST 2003


On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:25:09 -0000
"Admin" <admin at sycos.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Ion-Mihai,
> 
> My appologies, forgot to attach the file. I have re-sent that e-mail
> with attachment.
> 
> When you install Red Hat Linux, it allows you to label the multiple
> boot loader partitions and the FreeBSD generates the label per
> partition created. If you have already installed an operating system
> e.g. Windows platform, then it is displayed as ?? rather than the name
> of the operating system.

You have a NTFS slice. If it were fat32 it would have displyed DOS. It
is known and it is a issue of space, as the boot loader has to be very
small and adding mapping for slice (file system) types - name will make
it larger.

> Is there a way to modify this boot loader file

The sources.

> or rename the boot loader os label using command line command?

No.

But all this is in the FAQ. plese RTFM.


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IOnut
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