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

[hv]

Am 23.06.2009 um 03:18 schrieb Rick C. Petty:

> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:38:00AM +0800, Wu, Yue wrote:
>>
>> Another question, if these are more then 12 OSes exist on disk, how  
>> to select
>> the one that number larger than 12? :)
>
> You can only have 4 primary partitions in an MBR.  The boot0 gives  
> choice
> #5 for the next disk.  Thus there are only 5 choices, maximum.


Recently added (since 7.2): There are 6 possible choices.
Probably the 6th only shows up, if the bios supports booting via PXE.

Regards

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