Re: custom boot menu

[Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Jordan Gordeev wrote:

> On 2/23/10 9:25 PM, Saifi Khan wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > i've set up a quad boot system with BSD's installed
> > in the following order
> >   FreeBSD
> >   DragonFlyBSD
> >   OpenBSD
> >   NetBSD
> >
> > At boot time, the current display is shown as
> >   . FreeBSD
> >   . FreeBSD
> >   . BSD
> >   . BSD
> >
> > i'd like to create a custom boot menu, which shows their
> > respective names. Any suggestions or pointers ?
> >
> >
> > --
> > thanks
> > Saifi.
> First, congratulations for managing to get all four BSD's installed on a
> single system! It isn't that easy.
> 
> The code that prints the menu you are seeing is crammed into 512 bytes
> (actually less). There's simply no space for more functionality.
> 
> NetBSD can show a richer menu, including names picked by you. See mbr(8).
> 
> 
> --
> Jordan Gordeev
> 

Yes, i'm aware of the NetBSD menu approach.

Since the boot manager displays information on the basis of 
partition ID, DragonFlyBSD is shown as FreeBSD !

--
thanks
Saifi.