Subject: Re: NetBSD-2.0 Install CD does not boot on Dell
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
From: Feico Dillema <feico@pasta.cs.uit.no>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/28/2004 11:16:34
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:03:47PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> 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.

Except for those wanting to install recent NetBSD on old hardware.
I'd like no-emulation, but will we need two i386 ISOs in thee future?
One with and one without emulation?

Feico.