From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 15 11:55:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles550.castles.com [208.214.165.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E432E14C9E for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 11:55:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01211; Sat, 15 May 1999 11:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905151852.LAA01211@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Robert Nordier , jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), mike@smith.net.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: equivalent to "-P" in boot.config In-reply-to: Your message of "15 May 1999 14:57:45 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 11:52:17 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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. You could perhaps actually tell us about some of these systems, since I have yet to see the new probe fail at all. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message