On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:27:45 -0500, Paul Connally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've set "PNP OS = no" on every PC machine I've touched in the last 5 >or so years (every flavor of OS, to include Windows, Linux and *BSDs). > I suspect most everyone else does too. Most hardware today does what >it's supposed to (and if it doesn't, reconfiguring it is fairly >simple), so the need to have your OS remap low-level functions in >software during the boot of your OS is simply a kludge. > >If you remember the old days when the slogan "Plug n' Pray" was >common, you probably know to what I'm referring. The main reason why I know nothing about the PNPOS bit is that I've never actually used it and never bothered to read up about it. I've always just written it off as a nightmare waiting to happen and configured things manually. I was setting up a new box tonight, got curious and started wondering if my uninformed/underinformed opinion was still valid? -Or more importantly if anything useful could actually be done with it? The only "definitive" docs I know of are from MS. http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/b/a/eba1050f-a31d-436b-9281-92cdfeae4b45/SBF21.doc http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/1/161ba512-40e2-4cc9-843a-923143f3456c/PNPBIOS.rtf But I somehow doubt MS is willing to tolerate debate on the usefulness of this stuff. ;-) JCR
