From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 5 20:25:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E1DD16A4D0 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:25:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from damo.axelero.hu (fe01.axelero.hu [195.228.240.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3561A43D48 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:25:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sziszi@bsd.hu) Received: from damo (localhost-02 [127.0.2.1]) by damo.axelero.hu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id i75KP8jK017532 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:25:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fe01.axelero.hu [127.0.2.1] via SMTP gateway by damo [195.228.240.89]; id A0447968560 at Thu, 05 Aug 2004 22:25:08 +0200 Received: from momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx (ktv31-154-71.catv-pool.axelero.hu [62.201.71.154]) by fe01.axelero.hu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i75KP7FY017517 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:25:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx (localhost.buza.adamsfamily.xx [127.0.0.1])i75KPv1O001772 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:25:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sziszi@bsd.hu) Received: (from sziszi@localhost) by momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i75KPu5w001771 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:25:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sziszi@bsd.hu) X-Authentication-Warning: momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx: sziszi set sender to sziszi@bsd.hu using -f Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:25:56 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040805202556.GA1712@momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx> Mail-Followup-To: Szilveszter Adam , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org References: <4111FE83.9090602@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4111FE83.9090602@pacbell.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: Now here's something for FreeBSD advocacy X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 20:25:11 -0000 Hello Daniel, On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:31:47AM -0700, Daniel Rudy wrote: > > FreeBSD does it again. <...> Not to ruin your joy over a working hw setup, but in fact pretty much all decent PC OSs these days (the list is long, but does *not* include any version of DOS, for example) can do what FreeBSD did in this case just fine. The BIOS is no longer used by the OS to access the disk, but the BIOS needs to recognize the drive at least in part in order to be able to boot the OS from it (obviously). So, the lesson to take home here is this: unless you want to boot from a disk, you pretty much do not have to worry about the BIOS these days using eg FreeBSD. This does not include broken BIOS implementations, that actually crash and refuse to boot with an overly large drive even if the type is set to NONE. (I have seen such thing unfortunately) Luckily, there is almost always a last BIOS update even for older boards from sometime around 1999 because of the Y2K madness, and these usually include support for larger drives as well. > Kudos to the FreeBSD development teams. Indeed. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Budapest Hungary