Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 04:38:53 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: steinyv <steinyv@skyweb.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error Message-ID: <200007041138.EAA02590@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2000 11:21:58 EDT." <4.2.0.58.20000703111231.009b3e40@>
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> Hey all. I just installed FBSD on a 2nd machine and during the boot up > messages and in the dmesg output, I have a line saying "pnp bios: Bad PnP > Bios data checksum" > I configured the kernel and she boots up without a hiccup and everything > seems to be working good. I double checked the bios and everything seems > fine. What does it mean??? > The motherboard is a Micron M55Hi rev A (HX Chipset) with a P166, 64M of > ram, 6.4G HDD on the primary and an SMC Ultra 16 (8013) nic. It means that your PnP BIOS data has a bad checksum (and thus we don't trust it). You might try upgrading your BIOS, or just ignoring the message and being happy since there's probably not much on your board that the BIOS would help with. -- ... 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 taks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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