Editing the boot menu

Remington L mrl0lz at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 21:30:38 GMT 2005


Just use grub, much easier and more flexible

On 6/8/05, Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:
> 
> --On Wednesday, June 08, 2005 17:42:44 -0300 José de Paula Rodrigues
> <espinafre at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From what I gather, these labels come straight from /boot/boot0, not
> > from boot0cfg. Looking at the boot0 source code (found at
> > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S), you can see that the OS options
> > are hard-coded into the boot0 program, so there is no way to edit that
> > other than by changing the source code and recompiling.
> >
> I see that now. Thanks for pointing that out.
> 
> > Did you try using Grub instead? It now supports UFS2, and is a great
> > bootloader, with lots of features. You can find it in your ports tree.
> 
> It's not that big of an issue. It's just my workstation, and I know what
> ?? means. I was just being anal. I like to straighten out twisted phone
> cords too.
> 
> Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
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