From: earlcolby.pottinger@sympatico.ca   
      
   That is a bad assumation on your part.  On most systems disabling hardware   
   using the BIOS setting kills the power to that hardware at the time the   
   computer is turned on, not when BeOS or other OSes boot.  Look again you are   
   disabling calls to the BIOS not the BIOS itself.  If I am right booting   
   directly into the BIOS and turning off the serial port, saving the setting   
   should make the port invisible to BeOS.   
      
   Give it a try, what do you have to lose?   
      
                 Earl Colby Pottinger   
      
      
      
   Edmund  :   
      
   > In message <%raAf.18592$924.242961@news20.bellglobal.com>, Earl Colby   
   > Pottinger   
   > wrote:   
   > > Edmund  :   
   > >   
   > > > I have to use "don't call the bios" during boot but   
   > > > I need an IRQ for a modem.   
   > > > Disable com 2 would solve the problem.   
   > > > How do I do that?   
   > >   
   > > This is most often done in the BIOS settings.  Can you enter them?  By   
   the   
   > > way did you get video working ok?   
   >   
   > I got the video working in  VESA mode but in order to   
   > get it working I needed to disble the BIOS settings.   
   > That is the  "bios_calls disabled " in the bootscript.   
   > ( not "don't call the bios" )   
   > So no use to disable com2 in the BIOS, since BIOS   
   > settings are skipped.   
   > I am pretty sure it must be possible to disable   
   > com2 in a script too, only problem is, I don't   
   > know how.   
   > Always these little details :-)   
   >   
   > BTW   
   > maybe I can change the IRQ for the modem to 12   
   > and com3 in combination with a serial mouse with IRQ 4.   
   > >   
   > >           Earl Colby Pottinger   
      
      
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