port-i386: Re: NetBSD-2.0 Install CD does not boot on Dell

Subject: Re: NetBSD-2.0 Install CD does not boot on Dell
To: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20041221T093914@dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/22/2004 14:03:47

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:47:18AM -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>  The new machines designed to run recent microsoft code
> don't really need that emulation code, so we might start seeing more
> and more bioses not have it.

Absolutely correct. We have been reluctant to use no-emulation mode
because early BIOSes had bugs in that code. Since M$ switched to 
no-emulation, this has become a non-issue.

Martin