From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 25 09:01:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04F3D5C for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:01:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54EEC8FC08 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:01:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B428E65AF; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:04:58 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h= content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; s=mail; bh= uifJXj+0mAfr9dE+GT0i+lXYkJo=; b=CWxm89ih0yaqTbGvK/Fqvnv3QteZIvNv KR+Ts6UHZpGKGeIhYvoyFiNYYj9YWmYXs09pI0DE7aUJInup5PxWJDeiOPR7B6vE iALdY+xDyNePyOItBxHx1mbiyc9VNbsIxquhT4GrVh18EFgxuhVOHq1FEp9ItKB0 ia2Ap6ZwXFE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=content-type :mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; q=dns; s= mail; b=BV96j/ad3siEIvzRr6OLGPMbHPhhR7gWlaUHwetGnSJ3oPZ35p/EmF+m RTp2QbSIAJ2ZYGWd/RkD/WCFl0BIoePCFDhQ7GpNaejBkiw1IEVsGtuJFkyou2tl IIBpyq3mpyPfkT+lK9zbkOCneAeSVlGToUGMtXvv8BZGBqfJwr0= Received: from [192.168.1.233] (188-222-18-231.zone13.bethere.co.uk [188.222.18.231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1BD05E65A0; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:04:58 +0100 (BST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain From: Bruce Cran In-Reply-To: <201210250840.q9P8eK7v005917@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:01:11 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <201210250840.q9P8eK7v005917@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) Cc: cpghost@cordula.ws, freebsd@edvax.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:01:13 -0000 On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:40, Anton Shterenlikht = wrote: > So this means I might not > be able to boot freebsd at all > on future ia64 boxes.. Ignore the FUD - there will be an option to disable it in the = firmware/BIOS settings. --=20 Bruce Cran=