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From: Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
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Subject: No man page for BootMgr?
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>Number:         38816
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       No man page for BootMgr?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jun 02 02:40:14 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jul 29 04:33:43 PDT 2002
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jan 26 01:05:22 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Chris Pepper
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.6-RC i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
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>Description:
	When installing FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE from CD-ROM, I was offered an option to install BootMgr. I accepted this option, but can't find a man page with 'man -k bootmgr' or 'man -k boot' to describe this program, and how to configure it (if possible). Specifically, I'd like to tag my non-FreeBSD filesystems, so instead of '??', my first partition is identified as "Windows XP" or something more informative.
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:

	Create a man page for BootMgr.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
To: Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/38816: No man page for BootMgr?
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 03:53:24 -0700 (PDT)

 --- Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu> wrote:
 > >Number:         38816
 > >Category:       docs
 > >Synopsis:       No man page for BootMgr?
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sun Jun 02 02:40:14 PDT 2002
 
 > >Description:
 > When installing FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE from CD-ROM, I was offered an option
 > to install BootMgr. I accepted this option, but can't find a man page with
 > 'man -k bootmgr' or 'man -k boot' to describe this program, and how to
 > configure it (if possible). Specifically, I'd like to tag my non-FreeBSD
 > filesystems, so instead of '??', my first partition is identified as
 > "Windows XP" or something more informative.
 
 I am not sure about this, but I think it is not possible to change the
 '??' to something like 'Windows XP', because of the restrictions of the
 boot sector, although I am not entirely sure.  And I dont think there is
 a need for a manual page for BootMgr as there are no out-of-the-box features
 to tag operating systems like that.  You could try and use some other boot
 manager like Grub or others provided on the FreeBSD Release CD-ROM.
 
 If this is right, I would be very greatful is the PR can be closed.
 Thanks.
 
 Hiten.
 hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org
 
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From: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com>
To: pepper@rockefeller.edu
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: docs/38816: No man page for BootMgr?
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 05:59:58 -0700 (PDT)

 Can I just second this?  I'd really like to be able to change the
 boot manager table entries so it isn't
 
 F1: ??
 F2: FreeBSD
 F3: FreeBSD
 
 when F1 is windows2k F2 is by system and F3 is just the home file
 system (not bootable).  I hunted about for a day to find docs on this
 and found nothing!
 
 -r
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: chern 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 29 04:32:02 PDT 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
Look at boot0cfg(8) for information regarding the boot manager. 

See http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/faq/disks.html#CHANGING-BOOTPROMPT regarding 
changing the "???" to something else -- you can't. 

Try an alternative boot manager that allows you to label your different 
operating systems. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38816 
>Unformatted:
