Re: custom boot menu

[Jordan Gordeev <jgordeev@xxxxxx>]

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