Thanks to everyone for your help. I have finally got the system
booted properly on the smp kernel. (I never did work how why
some of the errors occured...)
Can anyone explain, though, why it would have installed the non-smp
kernel automatically on my dual-processor machine and the smp kernel
on my single-processor machine?
Brian.
Brian Schroeder wrote:
>
> I probably qualify as a newbie here. I have installed Mandrake 7.02
> onto a dual pentium 166. To my surprise the install process chose to
> install the non-smp version of the kernel - without giving me an option
> either.
>
> I have tried installing the smp kernel rpm (I did an rpm -ivh, changed
> the file links in /boot and ran lilo), but when I try to boot, it
> complains that the modules were built for a different kernel (ie. the
> non-smp version).
>
> So I tried to build a custom kernel. This is my first time doing this,
> and I followed the instructions as closely as possible. Although I
> didn't notice any particular problems with the compile, when I eventually
> got to the reboot it failed to boot with complaints about problems with
> various modules (particularly the SCSI driver modules - since all disks
> are SCSI). I have since restored the original kernel and have it running
> again, but I think the errors were along the lines of unresolved symbols,
> or other linker/loader type errors.
>
> Has anyone got any suggestions as to what I have done wrong, and what I
> should do?
>
> (As an interesting corollary: When I installed onto a single-CPU PIII,
> it was the smp kernel that was installed!)
>
> Brian.
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