From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 30 0: 6:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (sat.dis.org [216.240.44.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF4FB37B403 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:06:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6U78Mr03459; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:08:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107300708.f6U78Mr03459@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Sergey Homenkow Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:02:32 +0400." <1867158232.20010730110232@vist.bryansk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:08:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What's mean "pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum" ? It means that your PnP BIOS data has a bad checksum. We don't trust it in this case. Some vendors don't bother to compute the checksum for this structure; we are more conservative than Microsoft, and refuse to use the PnP BIOS in this case. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message