Boot menu allows you to choose programs/operating systems/program blocks to load. For instance, if you have two operating systems on your computer (not applicable for virtual machines) the boot menu allows you to choose OS to work with.
By "boot label", I presume you mean it's name as it appears in the boot menu. You can change this by editing the boot menu in question.For GRUB:The GRUB menu can be found in /boot/grub/menu.listFor LILO:The LILO menu can be found in either /boot/lilo/lilo.conf or /etc/lilo.confFor SYSLINUX:The SYSLINUX menu can be found in either /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg /syslinux/syslinux.cfg /boot/syslinux.cfg or in the root directory.For NTLDR (the Windows bootloader):The NTLDR menu can be found in the boot.ini file of your C:\ drive
boot loader
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Boot time, quickly click the F8 key position, you can enter the Advanced menu.
Windows Boot Manager
press f12 in the start up screen and that will access the boot menu. in the boot menu arrow key down and select your CD drive. enter and your booting to the CD. hope this helps.
The Ntldr file reads and loads the boot menu in Windows XP. The file runs from the hard drive but can be run from portable storage devices.
To change the contents of the boot loader menu in Windows XP, one must edit the boot.ini file.
You are given a choice of which operating system to boot into (you can only use one OS at a time).
That would be using the menu system to restart the computer. A shut down is a cool boot.
ntldr (NT Loader)
In the boot menu you might have a choice of Operating System (I do, on one of my computers that has both Linux and WindowsXP - when I start the machine the GRUB shows me a menu in which I choose OS)GRUB = GRound U Boot loaderWindowsXP is the operating system, it has to be running for any menu to show.