Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 12:03:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: equivalent to "-P" in boot.config Message-ID: <199905151903.MAA01275@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "15 May 1999 18:23:20 %2B0200." <xzplneqs3nr.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no>
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> Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> writes: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > 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. > > Let me rephrase this: it hasn't worked on any box I've tried it on. That's still remarkably content-free, and you know it. I think Robert's "properly substantiated" request is quite appropriate; I'd add "properly specified" as well. As I previously said, I've used it on a wide variety of systems with BIOS code from Award, AMI and Phoenix (including a very nasty Micronics OEM) with 100% success. Robert can probably give you some more detailed test questions, but to start with it'd be useful to know the usual. -- \\ 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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