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It occurred to me that Wojciech Puchar wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.general:
> looks like Microstar made BIOS that f...s things up intentionally so it 
> will work with exactly one version of "the only right" OS with "the only 
> right" extra drivers from their CD.

Dream on.