From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 31 23:08:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3C216A4CE for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:08:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.cms-stl.com (smtp.cms-stl.com [192.94.149.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1F043D31 for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:08:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from madden@cmsrtp.com) Message-ID: <41D5DBD0.4040307@cmsrtp.com> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:08:00 -0600 From: Michael Madden User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Conover References: <20041231221704.16230.qmail@rahul.net> In-Reply-To: <20041231221704.16230.qmail@rahul.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMS-Received: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:08:04 -0600, [192.168.2.2] (port=33846 helo=[192.168.2.2]) X-CMS-Authenticated-User: madden X-CMS-Received: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:08:05 -0600, [192.168.2.2] (port=33846 helo=[192.168.2.2]) X-CMS-Archived: smtp.cms-stl.com X-CMS-Scanned: Sophos Anti-Virus X-CMS-Received: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:08:05 -0600, localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:35286 helo=lxmail.cms-stl.com) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: madden@cmsrtp.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on smtp.cms-stl.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD PNP OS = NO in system bios configuration? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:08:06 -0000 John Conover wrote: > Should PNP OS = NO in the PC system bios configuration be used for > freeBSD? > I was reading through Michael Lucus's highly recommended book 'Absolute BSD', and this is what is said on the matter: "While you're in the system BIOS, set the "Plus and Play OS" option to "no". This tells the BIOS to do some basic hardware setup, rather than relying on the operating system to do everything. Modern versions of Microsoft Windows expect the hard to do as it is told, and hence expect full access to the hardware. FreeBSD, on the other hand, expects a system to perform as the hardware standards and specifications demand, and hence can take advantage of some setup work that is most easily done in the BIOS." "Many devices (particularly network cards) will behave poorly if you don't change this option."