I have a uniprocessor system: Pentium 4, 850 chipset.
During the first install I took the time to do individual package
selections and noticed that the smp kernel was checked so I unchecked
it. I also unchecked aurora and autologin. When the installation
finished, I saved my package selections to a floppy. My system later
went down hard (that's a different story) so I did the re-install
using [F1] "linux defcfg=floppy". I did a few quick checks and sure
enough, it appeared that my previous selections were set. Very nice.
What I failed to notice was that smp, aurora, autologin (and perhaps
others) got re-checked. When the system tried to boot off the smp
kernel it died instantly.
If the installation program has trouble detecting the number of
processors on the system, perhaps it could ask the user. Even a
Windoze user could probably answer this and avoid the very bad first
impression of Mandrake crashing on the first boot. Also, IMHO if one
saves package selections to a floppy, that exact set of packages should
be installed; no more, no less. (BTW, that feature is a great concept!)
Now the other story, is anyone using a highmem enabled kernel? I'm
having troubles with some modules with highmem enabled and I'm not
sure if they're stupid user errors or bugs. The specific modules
giving problems are nfs and reiserfs.
TIA
Rick
