Felix Miata wrote:
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>*That BIOS option should really be named "let windoze 95, 98, or ME
>mismanage your hardware resources at its whim". Linux isn't designed for
>such mismanagement. I have found that on some machines, not enabling
>that option can make windoze substantially more difficult to install.
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>Since no version of windoze has every been installed or booted on this
>machine, there has never been any reason to enable it*.
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but the bios manufaturers all think you are going to be corrupting your
system with windoze, so it defaults to on.
even my ancient AT board defaults the pnpos to on. ( pentium-mmx cpu )
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