On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Soren S. Jorvang wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 02:24:26PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> > >Many of these problems can be solved by using the PNPBIOS code.
> > 
> > 	see, I'll try PNPBIOS.  shouldn't we include it into INSTALL
> > 	and GENERIC kernel sometime soon?
> 
> Yep. Last it was discussed, it didn't work on all machines, however.
> 
> Does anyone still have machines that die horribly with the PNPBIOS code?
> 
> -- 
> Soren


[Please excuse the great delay in this reply, I'm digging out from 2000+
 NetBSD emails... ]


Yes, I've got a Gateway Solo 9300 LS that resets itself when it hits the
PNPBIOS code during autoconf.

I just haven't had the time to setup a serial console so that I can actually
capture the output.


Paul
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