On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> Peter Rivera enscribed thusly:
> > I just recently purchased the tyan tiger 100
> > i have 2 350mhz PII's
> > 128m pc 100
> > 2 cdroms
> > 8.4 gig hd
> > matrox mill II
>
> > after installing red hat 5.2
> > I immedialy cd /usr/src/linux
> > and uncomment # SMP = 1
> > then exit save and try make modules
> > but it tells me that I have two first make my kernal with modules support
> > so I then make xconfig
> > then i make modules
> > and lastly make modules_install
> > reboot
> > and my /proc/cpuinfo reports only one processor
>
> Yeah, but did you rebuild the base kernel? It sounds like all you
> did was rebuild the modules. That isn't sufficient. You are still running
> a uniprocessor base kernel.
>
> > please help im totally beat
>
> Do a "make zImage" or "make bzImage" and install the resulting
> kernel build appropriately.
>
> If you really want to work with SMP, you might want to consider
> going with the 2.2 kernels where SMP support is much more highly advanced.
> SMP support is also a config option instead of a makefile build option
> in 2.2.x
>
my personal choice is "make -j32 install
does everything, and does it in a _hurry_... :)
( used to use make -j, but that blows my make with 'too many
processes, fork failed' errors for recent 2.1/2.2 kernels...)
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