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

Rick C. Petty rick-freebsd2008 at kiwi-computer.com
Tue Jun 23 01:45:40 UTC 2009


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.

-- Rick C. Petty


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