Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 11:16:53 +0000 From: Tom Brown <tomb@netlink.co.uk> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Bad smbios table checksum. Message-ID: <3663D025.CBA022D5@netlink.co.uk>
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Hello good people, This morning I had to reboot a machine, which has for months run with no problems at all. On start-up it gave the following message: Bad smbios table checksum. The box then thought it only had 8M of it's installed 256M RAM and apache wouldnot start. The box is running FreeBSD 3.0 ( Not my choice! ) and has the PNP bios disabled. We tried restarting the box with the various BIOS cacheing options turned on (they were off) in order to force the smbios table higher in memory. It still produced the same error, but this time apache started ok and the system reported 216Mb free. My question is, what is smbios? And how does it work? I will CVSup the latest code to the machine and do a rebuild to 2.2.8 . Thanks in advance, Tom Brown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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