Hi All--
Tim Fletcher wrote:
>
[snip]
> The redhat 6.0 installer normally autodetects an smp m/b and installs an
> smp kernel, and glibc-2.1 in threaded so can run on mutliple cpus at once.
>
Not always. I have a Micronics M54Pe mobo running dual P100s, and
Redhat 6.0 did not detect the smp; the BIOS indeed reports "2nd
Processor Initialized" when booting, so RH should have known better.
There is an smp kernel in /boot, but the few times I've tried to run it
have not been a success. The smp kernel can't see my SCSI disks; it
boots from a 2.5GB IDE drive, and the other 14GB is all on SCSI. You
can see why I refrain from running the smp kernel. ... I did, however,
verify that the smp kernel found both processors and that the stepping
was the same.
It's probably a simple thing that I can twiddle to get the smp kernel to
load in the right module(s), but I haven't had time to dig for the
info. I'm just a little irritated at RH for not installing the smp
kernel properly in the first place.
<grump-grump-grump>-ly y'rs,
Ivan
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Ivan Van Laningham
Callware Technologies, Inc.
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See also:
http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html
Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70
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