On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 10:23:52AM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote: > The Anarcat wrote: > > >Why does everyone keep on trying to ditch the old hardware? It still > >works, doesn't it? It's still useful, isn't it? > > The fact that FreeBSD insists on fitting its kernel onto floppies has so > far prevented me from installing it on my not terribly new hardware. How has FreeBSD prevented you from installing because we fit the kernel on floppies? > You could easily extend that argument to say that Intel's efforts to > make EFI booting more widespread are a bad thing. So here we have a > company like Intel trying to make sales by making your future PC less > broken than your current one, and yet you'll no doubt chant "but my BIOS > works just fine. Why should I be forced to buy a new motherboard just to > install FreeBSD 6.3??" Don't worry that won't happen -- AMD has committed to the current type of BIOS and plans to NOT switch to EFI. -- -- David (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)Received on Sat May 03 2003 - 17:35:54 UTC
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