From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 1 22:50:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247A237B416 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 22:50:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0052.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.52] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 1739Tu-0004mV-00; Wed, 01 May 2002 22:50:19 -0700 Message-ID: <3CD0D37F.D1646522@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 22:49:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "PSI, Mike Smith" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PnP OS Problem References: <3CD02F48.ED9BFC45@mitre.org> 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 "PSI, Mike Smith" wrote: > 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. Alternately... we could just always do the PnP reassignment on our own, and totally ignore what the BIOS has already set up. Then it wouldn't matter what the BIOS settings were. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message