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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot: -c option
Date: 13 Mar 1995 10:49:13 +0100
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Thomas S. Traylor <tst@academia.swt.edu> wrote:
>: config>
>
>: Say help and it gives you a list of commands and explanations.
...
>I was looking for something a bit more informative. I would like to know
>what values are acceptable for each field. ie. iomem iosize... What is each
>field used for and how does changing its value effect the corresponding
>device?
It must match your hardware.
The `disable' option is to disable those probes that proved to be hang
the whole system or that misdetect something (since PC hardware comp-
onents itself are usually not very cooperative in supporting unique
device probing features). You normally start without disabling any-
thing, and only care for it if one of these conditions is met.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)