On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:45:02PM -0500, Jason B. wrote:
> As it is, we figure out whether the nodes are UP or SMP at some point. If
> the nodes get both installed (which they do), SIS should make the appropriate one
> the default boot kernel when it sets up LILO.
The issue here is that SIS uses a UP kernel for install, so it can't detect
whether or not there are more processors there. SMP kernels should run on
UP boxes in most cases, however the Red Hat kernels seem very problematic in
this regard.
-Sean
> Jason
>
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Steven A. DuChene wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:52:11AM -0500, brechin wrote:
> > > Actually, this seems to be an issue of trying to run an SMP kernel on a UP
> > > box. This is a recurring issue that has been ignored, but we now have another
> > > chance to fix the problem. Anyone think we ought to do something about this?
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > > >===== Original Message From "Steven A. DuChene"
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
> > > >On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:06:34AM -0700, Richard Ferri wrote:
> > > >> Steve,
> > > >> I am running RedHat 7.2, the 2.4.7-10 kernel.
> > > >> Once I moved from the SMP kernel to the UP kernel,
> > > >> life was good... Rich
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >Yes, this is a known issue with some versions of RedHat. I don't
> > > >know if they fixed it yet in 7.3
> > > >
> > > >I don't have many non-SMP boxes here so I can't test this problem.
> >
> > It requires running a UP kernel on a UP node. Do we have anyway of determining
> > this? How will we know if a particular distro even packages both a UP kernel
> > as well as a SMP one? I know most do but we would have to figure out the
> > naming convention for each distro.
> >
> > I guessing that fixing this will require some unusual trickery by SIS that
> > gets awefully close to altering the generic install methods for what ever distro
> > we are layering oscar on top of.
> >
> > I recall our software devel team at VA having this same issue. I "think" they
> > fixed it by fixing/changing something in the kernel but off the top of my head
> > I don't recall what it was. Can anyone determine if this same problem still
> > occurs with the kernels packaged with RedHat-7.3 ???
> > --
> > Steven A. DuChene [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > http://www.mindspring.com/~sduchene/
> >
>
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