Hi, list, Freebsd uses Fn to choose Nth OS on the disk, I have installed FreeBSD on the second slice of disk, so I use F2 to choose it, but sometimes I hit F2 occasionally before the boot menu is up, and F2 is my notebook for entering the setup menu, so I go into BIOS setup menu, it's annoying me sometimes, so I think why not use number key(0~9) instead of F1~F12 for choosing OS? -- Hi, Wu, Yue
Eugene Grosbein
2009-Jun-22 13:13 UTC
Use n instead of Fn for choosing the OS when booting?
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:39:38PM +0800, Wu, Yue wrote:> Freebsd uses Fn to choose Nth OS on the disk, I have installed FreeBSD on the > second slice of disk, so I use F2 to choose it, but sometimes I hit F2 > occasionally before the boot menu is up, and F2 is my notebook for entering > the setup menu, so I go into BIOS setup menu, it's annoying me sometimes, so > I think why not use number key(0~9) instead of F1~F12 for choosing OS?In fact, BootEasy does use both - F-keys and number keys, just give it a try. Eugene Grosbein
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 -- Henry Vogt <hv@tuebingen.mpg.de> (Fon: ++49-7071-601-511, Fax: -826) Campus Max-Planck-Institute, Spemannstr. 32-41, T?bingen, Germany -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 194 bytes Desc: Signierter Teil der Nachricht Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20090623/40562c67/PGP.pgp
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 :) -- Hi, Wu, Yue