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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 8:17 pm Post subject: Boot0 (FreeBSD)

Ummm, so I can't for the life of me remember how to change labels in FreeBSD's MBR. I know the actual MBR is in boot0, but how do I change the labels as the example below:

F1 DOS
F2 FreeBSD
F3 Linux
F4 ??
F5 Drive 1

Default: F2

The partition that F1 accesses is an M$ partition, but shows up as ???. Would like to make it pretty. Smile

TIA!!!

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 4:55 am Post subject:

it shows a ??? what it says when it runs into a filesystem that might be NTFS, or it might be OS/2's HPFS filesystem, or even QNX - they all share a filesystem ID number of 7. FreeBSD's bootloader just has the small bit that does the booting. If you want something other than question marks, you can hack the bootloader source (I've never tried and don't know what's involved) or use one of the other available bootloaders. You have readly available boot loaders in the ports tree.. grub or most people tend to lean twords gag.

Perhaps some day i'll make you up a diff patch for the bootloader.. but since these filesystems share the ID of 7 that is why you get the ???

perhaps you can use fdisk to change the name of the detected filesystem

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:56 am Post subject:

Thanks d00d... For some reason I thought it was easily changeable. I'll just look into gag and keep things simple. Smile