Andrew Tuson wrote: >I have built a twin 1GHz P111 box, using an Abit VP6 motherboard. I >installed Mandrake 8.2, and followed the HowTo to rebuild the kernel >with multiprocessor support. > >When the machine boots up, the initial boot screen shows that 2 CPUs >are present, and using dmesg to view the Linux boot text I get the report: > >Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1 > Virtual Wire compatibility mode. >OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 >Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17 >Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17 >I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000. >Processors: 2 > >A liitle further down it shows the first processor being initialized, but not >the second. > >After logging in, > >cat /proc/cpuinfo > >only shows one CPU. > >Does anyone know what my problem is, and how I can coach Linux to >recognize my second COU. > >All help gratefully received. > >Andrew Tuson > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > <puzzled look>
I installed 8.2 and I can boot either linux or linux-UP on my old dual PPro. I did not rebuild the kernel, just let the installer supply me with the SMP kernel, and added the UP kernel during package selection in case I ever take out one processor and still want to use the machine. So did you use the default SMP kernel provided? It might be a good fall-back until you can tune your customized kernel. Civileme
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