Sam,
I took your bet. I weighed up the time already spent on trying to get
my 'mixed' Slot 1 / Socket CPU setup to work against a kernel
compilation. I just spent the money and installed a second Slot 1.
Linux SMP services started straight up and I now have a screaming
1.4GHz, 200MHz FSB dual CPU machine. My marriage is saved and I have
promised not to look at my PC for at least 10 days!
Moral: get the right processors for the mobo, make sure they are
absolutely identical and don't cut corners.
Thanks again.
Tom
p.s. I checked out the MaxLinux HOWTO on kernel compilation and now feel
a lot more confident about fine tuning my own kernel - another day!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:27 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] SMP kernel but second CPU ignored
>
> I would bet that your running into problems because of the differences
> in cpu's
> before going out and buying another cpu I would try compiling an smp
> kernel on
> your machine. I'm not sure how your doing it but it sounds as though
> your using
> precompiled kernels. If you do not know how to compile a kernel go to
>
> www.maximumlinux.com. they have a very good walkthrough of compiling
> a kernel
> in there howto archives. I'm not sure that this will fix your problem
> but I've
> had many experiences where a device would not work until I used a
> kernel that
> was compiled on the machine that the device was on.
> Sam.
