On Saturday 13 April 2002 8:15 pm, you wrote: Hi ive had 2 vp6 motherboards so far, atm im using a gigabyte.. i got a bit annoyed at 2 vp6 motherboards going down :( the second vp6 gave me similar problems shortly before i replaced it the fix was to do a flash bios update, usually got the second cpu working ok.. the flash utility is very easy on the vp6. however for me the motherboard was on its way out so was replaced, i hope this is not the case for you. as for mandrake it installs the SMP kernel as default if you have and smp machine mandrake 8.2 here too :-))
good luck LtCdData > 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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