From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 23 08:05:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD28E1065675 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:05:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hv@tuebingen.mpg.de) Received: from mailgw2.tuebingen.mpg.de (mailgw2.tuebingen.mpg.de [192.124.27.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6542E8FC08 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:05:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hv@tuebingen.mpg.de) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,274,1243807200"; d="sig'?scan'208,217";a="575661" Received: from cmh.local (HELO tuebingen.mpg.de) ([10.3.6.123]) by mailgate2.local with ESMTP; 23 Jun 2009 09:35:55 +0200 Received: from adminx.local (account henry.vogt [10.3.7.25] verified) by tuebingen.mpg.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.8) with ESMTPSA id 8011824; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:35:55 +0200 Message-Id: <53C01C98-7C82-4E4F-9214-74AC0C662EA9@tuebingen.mpg.de> From: hv To: rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com In-Reply-To: <20090623011857.GA54747@keira.kiwi-computer.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-5--1000106037" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:35:49 +0200 References: <20090622123938.GA794@fbsd.hasee.cpu> <20090622131311.GA39134@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <20090622233800.GA779@fbsd.hasee.cpu> <20090623011857.GA54747@keira.kiwi-computer.com> X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.2.0 (v56) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable , "Wu, Yue" Subject: Re: Use n instead of Fn for choosing the OS when booting? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:05:24 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-5--1000106037 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 =20= >> to select >> the one that number larger than 12? :) > > You can only have 4 primary partitions in an MBR. The boot0 gives =20 > 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 -- Henry Vogt (Fon: ++49-7071-601-511, Fax: -826) Campus Max-Planck-Institute, Spemannstr. 32-41, T=FCbingen, Germany --Apple-Mail-5--1000106037 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: Signierter Teil der Nachricht content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkpAhdUACgkQiF3PvXvQ0FAXMQCgkrJscDU1Fi+Ii82CORdtB0v9 ocAAmgJALNFtaQn3iD2p6VS/1V3eIXqw =v/bB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-5--1000106037--