Use n instead of Fn for choosing the OS when booting?

Eugene Grosbein eugen at kuzbass.ru
Mon Jun 22 13:13:16 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:39:38PM +0800, Wu, Yue wrote:

> Freebsd uses Fn to choose Nth OS on the disk, I have installed FreeBSD on the
> second slice of disk, so I use F2 to choose it, but sometimes I hit F2
> occasionally before the boot menu is up, and F2 is my notebook for entering
> the setup menu, so I go into BIOS setup menu, it's annoying me sometimes, so
> I think why not use number key(0~9) instead of F1~F12 for choosing OS?

In fact, BootEasy does use both - F-keys and number keys,
just give it a try.

Eugene Grosbein


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