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Subject: Bad smbios table checksum.
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Hello,

I doubt very much you can "upgrade" from 3.0 to 2.2.8 via cvsup/make
world (3.0 being converted to elf and other reasons ...)
I'm afraid you will have to install 2.2.8 from scratch

	TfH

> 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
> 
> 
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