Date: Tue, 1 Dec 98 13:30:30 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: tomb@netlink.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Bad smbios table checksum. Message-ID: <H000057c01a87624@MHS> In-Reply-To: <3663D025.CBA022D5@netlink.co.uk>
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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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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