Vista´s boot menu shows only 6 entries

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Vista´s boot menu shows only 6 entries. The seventh or more entry does not
more appear.
In bcdedit (the command line tool) all OS entries will be displayed.
Is there a registry entry restricting the boot menu to 6 entries?
 
czer27 said:
Vista´s boot menu shows only 6 entries. The seventh or more entry does not
more appear.
In bcdedit (the command line tool) all OS entries will be displayed.
Is there a registry entry restricting the boot menu to 6 entries?
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Err can I ask why you have SEVEN different OS's on the one machine? Why not
have ONE OS and use Virtual PC for the other 6?
 
czer27 said:
Vista´s boot menu shows only 6 entries. The seventh or more entry
does not
more appear.
In bcdedit (the command line tool) all OS entries will be displayed.
Is there a registry entry restricting the boot menu to 6 entries?
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The limit used to be 10 entries, and as I understand it the limit has
been increased (but I don't know what the new limit iw). I saw a post
in a Linux forum where someone had dozens of entries, but didn't
mention having to do anything special to allow that many. So, I
suspect there may be a problem with the setup if it isn't showing the
seventh entry.
 
Gordon said:
Err can I ask why you have SEVEN different OS's on the one machine?
Why not have ONE OS and use Virtual PC for the other 6?
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Because the OP wants to? Because virtual machines are slower than
running on the actual hardware? Because the hardware virtualization
isn't capable of giving you the same experience, especially when
dealing with 3D video?

Why should you care why? If you can answer the question (and at the
same time, give advice for a possible alternative) do so, but come on!
 
Zaphod Beeblebrox said:
Because the OP wants to?
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As a recently retired Systems Accountant I can say I have NEVER, EVER, in 30
years of dealing with systems, met ANYONE who has more then three OSs on the
one machine. I just cannot see the point of it.
 
Zaphod Beeblebrox said:
The limit used to be 10 entries, and as I understand it the limit has
been increased (but I don't know what the new limit iw). I saw a post
in a Linux forum where someone had dozens of entries, but didn't
mention having to do anything special to allow that many. So, I
suspect there may be a problem with the setup if it isn't showing the
seventh entry.

--
Zaphod

"The best Bang since the Big One" - Eccentrica Gallumbits

Thanks for your interesting hint.
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Can you a little specify "setup", do you mean the setup of the OS?
I have yet following detail:
When I use the tool EasyBCD and change the order of the entries in the boot
menu, then will be displayed other entries. It seems to be so, that all
entries are existing in the boot menu, but only the first six appears.
 
Gordon said:
As a recently retired Systems Accountant I can say I have NEVER, EVER, in 30
years of dealing with systems, met ANYONE who has more then three OSs on the
one machine. I just cannot see the point of it.
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It's not your machine, Nanny.
 
Gordon said:
Err can I ask why you have SEVEN different OS's on the one machine? Why
not have ONE OS and use Virtual PC for the other 6?
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Err - Hey Dumb ****, Err, because it is Err, None of your Err ****ing
Business, Err.

Got It? Err -
 
Gordon said:
As a recently retired Systems Accountant I can say I have NEVER, EVER,
in 30 years of dealing with systems, met ANYONE who has more then three
OSs on the one machine. I just cannot see the point of it.
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Err you don't have the brains to be an Err Systems Accountant. Err. I
believe that you were an Administrative Assistant who couldn't be a
Systems Accountant because, Err, you have brain damage. Err.
 
Gordon said:
As a recently retired Systems Accountant I can say I have NEVER,
EVER, in 30 years of dealing with systems, met ANYONE who has more
then three OSs on the one machine.
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So in your *limited* experience, you've never met one of the many
people who have done so. Fair enough. But that doesn't mean they
don't exist.
I just cannot see the point of it.
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Just because you don't see the point doesn't mean anything. There are
people who do see the point, whether because they need to do so, or
because they want to.

Why you've made it your job to question the choices made by others and
tell them they shouldn't be doing things that way is beyond me. If
you want to help, good for you, try actually answering questions in a
helpful way rather than being such a nanny.

--
Zaphod

Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's
something big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the
universe gets that.
 
czer27 said:
Thanks for your interesting hint.
Can you a little specify "setup", do you mean the setup of the OS?
I have yet following detail:
When I use the tool EasyBCD and change the order of the entries in
the boot
menu, then will be displayed other entries. It seems to be so, that
all
entries are existing in the boot menu, but only the first six
appears.
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I suspect it has to do with the setup of the BCD since I've seen that
others are successful in using more than 6 entries, but beyond that I
don't know, and I'm afraid I also don't know what you might need to do
to correct it.

Sorry I can't be more help. As a thought, you might try asking over
in microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup, could be that
someone over there might be able to help.
 
Zaphod Beeblebrox said:
I suspect it has to do with the setup of the BCD since I've seen that
others are successful in using more than 6 entries, but beyond that I
don't know, and I'm afraid I also don't know what you might need to do
to correct it.

Sorry I can't be more help. As a thought, you might try asking over
in microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup, could be that
someone over there might be able to help.

--
Zaphod

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, ya know? - Gag Halfrunt

Thanks, Zaphod, I will try it!
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Well, just a thought:

if command line: bcdedit /? /enum

then resulting output: says (& much more) that running bcdedit without parameters is the same as "bcdedit /enum ACTIVE", which is
the default. It also mentions another sub modifier, which would be expressed as "bcdedit /enum ALL". That seems to suggest there is
a difference written into the program as to what flags must be on the command line to display what.
 
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