Use n instead of Fn for choosing the OS when booting?
Wu, Yue
vanopen at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 15:11:17 UTC 2009
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:35:49AM +0200, hv wrote:
>
> 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.
Thanks for the infos :)
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Hi,
Wu, Yue
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