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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