--- Krishna P <mail2krish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 8/8/06, Girish Venkatachalamfyi
<girish1729@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
wrote:
--- Antano Solar John <solar345@xxxxxxxxxxx>
workplace
true .... agree with you :)Well actually this is what happened at my
years ago.as
Myself to Boss : So you can install as many OSes
you want right?less
Boss to myself : Yes, any number as long as it is
than or equal to 4picked
I found it very hard to agree with him but I
myself up and moved on. :-)to
There are several factors playing here. The OS has
support booting from a point beyond the scary 1024Though
cylinder limit. OpenBSD is notorious for that.
I think they have fixed that now.able
In fact I will first make sure that I really am
to boot more than 4 OSes by making 4 primary andnth
remaining logical partitions and test whether the
OS that is lying way off from the disk beginningis
able to boot.
Once if you have created 4 primary partition you
cannot create more than
that ,
your logical partition can be created only if you
have atleast one extended
partition
Boot loaders also have to support this of course.
These days grub seems to be really popular thoughgrub
also is still lacking in certain things.more
Anyway if any of you are successful in booting
than 4 OSes pls do let me know.
Literally it is possible to have more than 4 OS in
different partitions,
but presently most of them doesnt consider the other
operating system
which lies in the hard disk , every operating
system wants its boot loader
code to be installed in the MBR ( except linux
AFAIK) , some of them needs
atleast a primary partition (eg MINIX) ,
But for all practical purposes I think this limit
will
hardly hit us.
Krishna P.
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