Re: Re[2]: Please help me, I can't get RH to use my second CPU

2002-12-14 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 16:36, Søren Neigaard wrote: > I will try this, but I have a few questions first. If I install the > binary SMP kernel RPM, will it overwrite my existing kernel, or can I > keep them both? > No an install will NOT overwrite an existing kernel. An upgrade will though. use r

Re: Re[2]: Please help me, I can't get RH to use my second CPU

2002-12-14 Thread Ben Russo
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 17:36, Søren Neigaard wrote: > I will try this, but I have a few questions first. If I install the > binary SMP kernel RPM, will it overwrite my existing kernel, or can I > keep them both? > When you are finished doing a make config or make menuconfig or make xconfig, edit t

Re[2]: Please help me, I can't get RH to use my second CPU

2002-12-14 Thread Søren Neigaard
I will try this, but I have a few questions first. If I install the binary SMP kernel RPM, will it overwrite my existing kernel, or can I keep them both? If I build my kernel two (or more) times with the same version number in the Makefile, will it cause problems? I comes with a warning all the ti

Re: Please help me, I can't get RH to use my second CPU

2002-12-14 Thread Ben Russo
If you boot from the stock RH 8.0 SMP kernel does it work? If so then it ain't a hardware problem, or a compatability problem, it is a kernel config problem. Are you using the source for the kernel from RedHat? If yes, then "cd /usr/src/linux; make clean" then "make xconfig" then load the config f

Please help me, I can't get RH to use my second CPU

2002-12-14 Thread Søren Neigaard
I have this old IBM PC Server 520 with 2 P133 CPU's. When the machine boots, it says that it initializes the second CPU, so at least the BIOS sees both CPU's. I have now compiled my own kernel to get rid of the extra luggage, but if I try to compile it with SMP support, my machine won't boot with