How to edit Boot loader

Robert Marella hoe-waa at hawaii.rr.com
Mon Jan 24 11:17:35 PST 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 01:18 -0800, Jose Antonio wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> can anyone please give me some advice on how to edit
> the boot message I see when I boot my PC. I've both XP
> and FreeBSD latest release, and I see "F1: DOS CR F2:
> FreeBSD CR Default: F1". I've gone to /boot directory
> and searched with "strings" command in all files, and
> I've seen these strings in binary files. Does anyone
> know how could I edit it in order to modify these
> entries?. Many thanks
> 
> Jose

Jose

This has come up many times on the mail lists. The short answer is "you
can't"

The best answer is install GAG 
http://gag.sourceforge.net/

It is easy to use and you can run it from a floppy or load it into the
MBR.

Best of luck

Robert





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