On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:03:32 -0400 (EDT), Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, J.C. Roberts wrote: > >> I realize the BIOS/CMOS setting "Plug and Play OS" on x86 has >> something to do with boot time configuration of hardware (usually >> resource allocation on PCI cards and such) but I'm really not certain >> how this setting interacts with OpenBSD? > >set it to no. Thanks Ted. That's what I've always done with OBSD but it seems I wasn't very clear; I'm mainly looking to learn about how the PnP BIOS setting works (i.e. just curious and wondering why it's only used by microsoft OS's). I've glanced through the "Plug and Play BOIS Specification v1.0a" and the "Simple Boot Flag Specification v2.1" provided by Microsoft but I'm yet to figure out what exactly is gained by configuring devices with the OS versus configuring devices with the BIOS firmware? Any chance you could point me towards any half decent docs or debate? Thanks, JCR
