From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 15 7:58:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ceia.nordier.com (196-7-192-75.iafrica.com [196.7.192.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005AB15271 for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 07:58:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id QAA24209; Sat, 15 May 1999 16:56:30 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199905151456.QAA24209@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: equivalent to "-P" in boot.config In-Reply-To: from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "May 15, 1999 02:57:45 pm" To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 16:56:26 +0200 (SAST) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com (Robert Nordier), jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), mike@smith.net.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > 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. If I receive any properly-substantiated reports to this effect, I'll give the matter every consideration. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message