I probably qualify as a newbie here. I have installed Mandrake 7.02
onto a dual pentium 166. To my surprise the install process chose to
install the non-smp version of the kernel - without giving me an option
either.
I have tried installing the smp kernel rpm (I did an rpm -ivh, changed
the file links in /boot and ran lilo), but when I try to boot, it
complains that the modules were built for a different kernel (ie. the
non-smp version).
So I tried to build a custom kernel. This is my first time doing this,
and I followed the instructions as closely as possible. Although I
didn't notice any particular problems with the compile, when I eventually
got to the reboot it failed to boot with complaints about problems with
various modules (particularly the SCSI driver modules - since all disks
are SCSI). I have since restored the original kernel and have it running
again, but I think the errors were along the lines of unresolved symbols,
or other linker/loader type errors.
Has anyone got any suggestions as to what I have done wrong, and what I
should do?
(As an interesting corollary: When I installed onto a single-CPU PIII,
it was the smp kernel that was installed!)
Brian.
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