From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 15 5:58: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6986F14FA7 for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 05:57:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA48990; Sat, 15 May 1999 14:57:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Robert Nordier Cc: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), mike@smith.net.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: equivalent to "-P" in boot.config References: <199905151246.OAA23595@ceia.nordier.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 15 May 1999 14:57:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: Robert Nordier's message of "Sat, 15 May 1999 14:46:35 +0200 (SAST)" Message-ID: Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Nordier writes: > The approach certainly does work in a substantial number of cases: > and, where it does work, it is highly likely to work reliably (since, > if any code understands the given hardware, it is likely to be > the BIOS). Well, there are enough boxes out there on which it *doesn't* work that it should at least be documented in the man page. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message