Boot partition names ?

hii,
please i have a little question . i searched alot but didnt found any solution . can you help me please .
i have macbook with vista and leopard installed when i power up my macbook and press ALT/OPTION key its show 2 drives : 1st labeled "mac" and the 2nd labeled "windows" .
if there is any option to rename this names ?
so if i have vista and xp and leopard , i want every partition show its name instead of mac ,windows,windows .
thanks for any help .

amenoera wrote:
thats mean if i installed vista and xp the both will shown as "windows" .
so i cant know which vista or xp ? right ?
Sadly said yes.
You might wanna use rEFIt http://refit.sourceforge.net/ as a Boot-Menu, since rEFIt shows not only the name (still Windows) but also the the partition on which Windows is installed (Boot Windows from Partition 'X').
Regards
Stefan

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1. I have only one disk, partioned with gpt.
2. I am using Grub with Bios
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Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
Your partition table is corrupted; you could clear it using:
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insmod part_gpt
insmod part_msdos
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
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if [ "${next_entry}" ] ; then
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set next_entry=
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set default="0"
fi
if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
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set prev_saved_entry=
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set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
function load_video {
if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
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insmod efi_uga
insmod ieee1275_fb
insmod vbe
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APM: not present
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[SOLVED] boot partition does not output on genfstab.

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$esp = EFI System Partition?
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http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gummiboot
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I first query the partition-name from the ALL_TAB_PARTITIONS table and store the same in a VARCHAR2 variable named partition_name_low.
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