FreeBSD 5.1 PowerPak Installation problem

Admin admin at sycos.co.uk
Mon Dec 22 06:39:12 PST 2003


Thanks

Regards

Gurdial Chandra


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" <itetcu at apropo.ro>
To: "Admin" <admin at sycos.co.uk>
Cc: "Dorin H" <bj93542 at yahoo.com>; <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1 PowerPak Installation problem


> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> IOnut
> Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user



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