How to change the boot OS name
 

I installed WinXp first and then Red Hat 9. During boot up, the Red Hat boot
loader asked me which OS i want to boot. At the beginning, there are two
choices: Red Hat_<version no.> and DOS. When I boot to Red Hat, it asked
me to updated my Red Hat, I did it and now, during boot up, I got three
selections:

1) Red Hat_<new version No.>
2) Red Hat_<old version No.>
3) DOS (I set it as default boot)

My questions:
1) can I delete the boot option for the "RedHat _<old version NO.>"?
2) CanI change the name "DOS" to like "Windows XP"?

In my case, WinXP is installed in Master drive and Linux installed in slave
drive.

Thanks for help!

what are you using? lilo or grub?

I'm using Grub

if lilo:

edit /etc/lilo.conf
1) find something like that
and delete it
2) find and change label="Dos" to label="Windows XP"

then save changes and as root type at console
if using grub, find something like /boot/grub/menu.lst or /etc/grub/menu.lst or similar (i don't know how it is in RH)
1) find something like that and delete:
2) find something like that and change the title

Another method would be to delete the old kernel by doing,
$rpm -qa | grep -i kernel
#rpm -e kernel-version(name of the old kernel)
This removes the old kernel and it's grub entry.

Thanks nazir! your memory is good, its /boot/grub/menu.lst

I did it and now the boot up looks nicer!
Cheers!

Aoeshang, thanks for asking one of the questions I had rattling around in the back of my mind.

Redazz, good info. I appreciate the explicit examples. Gives one confidence in what you suggest. It worked nicely too. Thanks!

...Gil