Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 11:52:17 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), mike@smith.net.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: equivalent to "-P" in boot.config Message-ID: <199905151852.LAA01211@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "15 May 1999 14:57:45 %2B0200." <xzpso8ysd6e.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no>
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> Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> 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
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