I don't know how definitive the "Absolute OpenBSD" book is considered
but in chapter 3, "Hardware Setup" it is written:
"First, set "Plug and Play OS" to NO. This tells your BIOS to do some
basic hardware setup, rather than relying upon the OS to do everything.
Modern versions of Microsoft Windows expect to handle hardware setup.
OpenBSD takes advantage of the BIOS' ability to configure the hardware
itself. Many PCI devices will work poorly if you do not set this option!"
Pascal
Chris Smith wrote:
On Sunday 18 September 2005 08:12 am, Michael Shalayeff wrote:
set it to no.
actually set it to yes. always.
According to all of the info I've heard or read from Microsoft or Intel
the most proper setting (many times either will work) is "no" unless
the OS is Win9x/ME. There was, IIRC, a reasonable amount of discussion
on this before the Win2k release in the private Win2k beta newsgroup.
I read "Plug and Play OS" as "Are you using Win9x/ME?" and answer
appropriately. Of course, the answer is happily always no.
Chris
