Re: BIOS/CMOS Plug and Play OS

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Shalayeff
Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Ted Unangst: On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Michael Shalayeff wrote: set it to no. actually set it to yes. always. on most modern machine setting it to no often results in incorrect pcibios config tables generated and thus often screwed

Re: BIOS/CMOS Plug and Play OS

2005-09-18 Thread Michael Shalayeff
Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Ted Unangst: 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

Re: BIOS/CMOS Plug and Play OS

2005-09-18 Thread Pascal
I don't know how definitive the Absolute OpenBSD book is considered but in chapter 3, Hardware Setup it is written: First, set Plug and Play OS to NO. This tells your BIOS to do some basic hardware setup, rather than relying upon the OS to do everything. Modern versions of Microsoft Windows

Re: BIOS/CMOS Plug and Play OS

2005-09-18 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:06:56 -0400, Pascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know how definitive the Absolute OpenBSD book is considered but in chapter 3, Hardware Setup it is written: First, set Plug and Play OS to NO. This tells your BIOS to do some basic hardware setup, rather than relying

Re: BIOS/CMOS Plug and Play OS

2005-09-16 Thread Paul Connally
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? Could someone drop-kick me in the right direction

Re: BIOS/CMOS Plug and Play OS

2005-09-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
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

Re: BIOS/CMOS Plug and Play OS

2005-09-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
=sr_1_1/102-5807367-4514550?v=glances=books /marco On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 08:31:49PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: 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

Re: BIOS/CMOS Plug and Play OS

2005-09-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:02:23 -0500, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read at least the mindshare books on ISA and PCI. Let me warn you that the mindshare books are very complementary and for one to be able to fully grasp their content you really should buy and read them all. This will