i dont see any reason to need more than two or three os.
but anyway just to prove to you that it is possible
i posted a link which shows you how a man installed 30+ os in 1 system .
so it is possible but just not needed :)
and as someone else had already stated 4 is a standard not a limitation.
From: Girish Venkatachalam <girish1729@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Girish Venkatachalam <girish1729@xxxxxxxxx>,Krishna P
<mail2krish@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Antano Solar John <solar345@xxxxxxxxxxx>, ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Fedora not getting after install Debian
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:16:13 -0700 (PDT)
--- Girish Venkatachalam <girish1729@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/multibooting.html
--- Krishna P <mail2krish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 8/8/06, Girish Venkatachalamis
<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?
Boss to myself : Yes, any number as long as it
lesshas
than or equal to 4picked
I found it very hard to agree with him but I
myself up and moved on. :-)
There are several factors playing here. The OS
to1024
support booting from a point beyond the scary
thecylinder limit. OpenBSD is notorious for that.Though
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 and
remaining logical partitions and test whether
nththough
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
grubother
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
operating systemfyi
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) ,
http://paulf.free.fr/multiboot.html
regards,
Girish
But for all practical purposes I think this limit
will
hardly hit us.
Krishna P.
--
BLOG: http://gnubie.blogspot.com/
Well I asked the question on
freebsd-hackers@xxxxxxxxxxx.
I was told that the 4 OS limit in MBR still exists.
We have to live with that depressing reality. :-)
If I get to see an optimistic reply I will let you
know.
Best,
Girish
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