Re: Editing the boot menu

From: Alejandro Pulver (alejandro_at_varnet.biz)
Date: 06/08/05

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    Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:38:36 -0300
To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>

    On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:17:37 -0500
    Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote:

    > When you use FreeBSD's boot manager, you get a menu like this at
    > bootup:
    >
    > F1 DOS
    > F2 FreeBSD
    > F3 Linux
    > F4 ??
    > F5 Drive 1
    >
    > Default: F2
    >
    > Is there a way to edit the list? Or is that fixed when boot manager
    > is installed and not configurable?
    >
    > By edit, I mean, for example, change F4 ?? to F4 MyOS.
    >

    Hello,

    You can try using GAG, a Graphical Boot Loader which does not need a
    slice or partition for installing (it uses a special part of the disk,
    reserved for things like that), it can be configured while booting,
    self uninstalled (restoring the previous bootloader) and supports a lot
    of operating systems. Of course, it is free and open-source.

    http://gag.sourceforge.net/

    It is the *best* bootloader (for booting more than one operating
    systems) I have found (I have tried BootMagic, Lilo and Grub).

    Best Regards,
    Ale
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