I will be installing Suse 10.0 and it will be the only OS on my machine.

I am getting mixed signals from what I've been reading online. Some
sites say that, in the BIOS, I need to change the "PnP Aware OS" to read
"No." Other sites claim this is no longer necessary.

Whom am I to believe?

Darlene

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:52:15 -0500, D Scott wrote:

> I will be installing Suse 10.0 and it will be the only OS on my machine.
>
> I am getting mixed signals from what I've been reading online. Some
> sites say that, in the BIOS, I need to change the "PnP Aware OS" to read
> "No." Other sites claim this is no longer necessary.
>
> Whom am I to believe?
>
> Darlene

Pretty much all OSs have their own facilities for detecting and
configuring PnP devices. Therefore, the "other sites" are correct: you no
longer need your BIOS to pass PnP information to your OS (Suse in this
case).

Vaxius wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:52:15 -0500, D Scott wrote:
>
>> I will be installing Suse 10.0 and it will be the only OS on my machine.
>>
>> I am getting mixed signals from what I've been reading online. Some
>> sites say that, in the BIOS, I need to change the "PnP Aware OS" to read
>> "No." Other sites claim this is no longer necessary.
>>
>> Whom am I to believe?
>>
>> Darlene
>
> Pretty much all OSs have their own facilities for detecting and
> configuring PnP devices. Therefore, the "other sites" are correct: you no
> longer need your BIOS to pass PnP information to your OS (Suse in this
> case).
>
Actually it is mostly an issue in "dual boot" machines. There the goal is
to get consistent configuration and device accessibility for both OS's.
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