Installation problem

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:

[snip]
>
> Oh, what you just wrote reminded me about something I learnt very early
> when I started with Linux.
>
> This may now be outdated with the improvements in the kernel, I don't
> know, but Linux expects that the BIOS has full control over the
> computer's resources. This means that you should not have in the BIOS
> the setting that the computer is using Plug-n-Play operating system -
> like Windows. Change this setting this setting to "not using PnP OS" or
> whatever the BIOS has. Windows will still function perfectly.

This doesn't seem to be a requirement lately:

https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/installation-guide/i386/pre-install-bios-setup.html

This link provides interesting (legacy?) advices on BIOS config.

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