Well, a friend of mine built a dual 500mhz Celeron machine. He installed
Mandrake 7.0 on it, and was able to boot the smp kernel right away without
any probs. Bah!
:)
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Greg Stewart wrote:
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 19:56:33 -0400
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: "Greg Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [expert] SMP support
>
> > [Is it] possible that all of
> > the needed components didn't get installed because of the lack of hard
> > drive space?
> >
>
> Don't quite know... what I *do* know is that with a standard MDK7.1
> workstation install on a single processor machine, I am pushing 1.8GB of
> disk usage. That's with on a small amount of downloaded updates... so the
> orginal install could not have been much less.
>
> I don't know about MDK, but the RH kernel makes sure to reserve about 10%
> of
> drive space for emergency control. So, the df info is not entirely
> accurate
> in terms of available space.
>
> There was another e-mail I responded to tonite or yesterday, or whenever
> my
> memory started functioning again...I was bitching (a little) about the
> MDK
> install and all the stuff it puts on the HD. Only a real problem with
> small
> drives, but I just don't know what's on there!
>
> Also, I don't know if you have to install with one processor, update the
> kernel for SMP, and install the modules, etc., and then install the
> second
> processor for it to work. I haven't even attempted to use a dual
> processor
> machine under linux.
>
> (Re-reading this, I really don't think it was of any help,
> but I'm sending it anyway!) :-)
>
> --Greg
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tyler Longren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 6:55 PM
> Subject: [expert] SMP support
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is my first post to this list. I just got a dual 200 mhz HP
> Vectra
> XW
> > with 128 RAM. It only has a 1 gig HD now (all I had that would work
> with
> > it). Anyway, the processors are Intel Pentium Pro's. I installed
> Mandrake
> > 7.0, it installed the SMP kernel, but when I choose to boot with SMP
> > support, it never boots up. It boots fine using only 1 processor.
> >
> > Here is where it stops booting:
> > ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on IRQ 15
> >
> > It hits that point in the boot, then freezes. It is possible that all
> of
> > the needed components didn't get installed because of the lack of hard
> > drive space?
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > --
> > Tyler Longren
> > [Web Development]
> > Premier Visual Services
> > http://www.pvs2000.com
> >
> >
>
>
>
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