From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 1 20:54:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E83B037B404 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 20:47:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g423lRH30460; Wed, 1 May 2002 21:47:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g423kJb94775; Wed, 1 May 2002 21:47:12 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 21:46:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020501.214605.52620437.imp@village.org> To: mlsmith@mitre.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP OS Problem From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3CD02F48.ED9BFC45@mitre.org> References: <3CD02F48.ED9BFC45@mitre.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <3CD02F48.ED9BFC45@mitre.org> "PSI, Mike Smith" writes: : I just noticed that someone else ran into a problem with the solution : "Disable PNP OS in the BIOS". I too ran into that some time back for a : very different problem. If it weren't for the great help from this list, : I would probably still be chasing that one down. : : Now I haven't installed FreeBSD for some time so this may be done : already. : : Is there ANY benefit to having PNP OS enabled?? I know there are a lot : of problems if it is? If there are no benefits, I would suggest making : this (disabling it) a VERY BLATANT step (suggestion?) in the : installation instructions for FreeBSD. Again, I haven't installed in : quite some time so if this is already in place, I apologize. At this time, FreeBSD requires PNP OS disabled. It does not yet do full resource assignment for pci cards, for example. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message