From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 15 12: 4:47 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 4CFB614C9E for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 12:04:44 -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 MAA01275; Sat, 15 May 1999 12:03:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905151903.MAA01275@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: equivalent to "-P" in boot.config In-reply-to: Your message of "15 May 1999 18:23:20 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 12:03:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Robert Nordier 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