I think the installer which comes with SuSe or RH can detect a SMP based board and install SMP kernel (i.e. you don't have to recompile the kernel with SMP=1). The important point is: there is one system configuration utility in your system where you have to choose Unixware 7 as the operating system to have proper APIC mode. Otherwise the default APIC emulation mode will be used(this has been discussed in some RH support database). <quote from http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/linux/compaq-howto-5.html> Why choose UnixWare 7 as the operating system to install? For SmartStart version 4.6 or later, select "Linux" as the operating system to install. Earlier versions of SmartStart did not include Linux as an operating system option. In this case, the UnixWare 7 setting configures the server's hardware (including chipset-level settings such as the APIC mode) in a manner appropriate for Linux. </quote> Also about the 1GB RAM there is some customer advisory. http://www.compaq.com/support/techpubs/customer_advisories/EU990924_CW01_0.h tml But I don't know whether it's applicable for your kernel. You should check with the COMPAQ support (COMPAQ *does* provide LINUX support and Proliant 1600 is certified for Linux). Disclaimer: Note that I am not in any way involved with Proliant server support for Linux or have played with Proliant server in my lifetime(well my mail server is a Proliant ;-) but with NT :-(. It's only that I am part of the BCSD group in Compaq and I felt some compulsion to provide the above links to ease your problem. You can always contact GCSC Compaq for any support related to Linux and your Proliant 1600. Kousik ----- Original Message ----- From: Kedar Patankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 8:08 AM Subject: Re: Compaq Proliant 1600 Server - Problem with linux > > 1) it does not identified that machine is having two processors ( > really, this i > > do not know, some body told me that it is not configured to the dual > processor, > > they ask me to see the /boot/cpuinfo, which showing one processor > details ) > > The default kernel shipped with almost all distributions is uniprocessor > kernel. RH provides precompiled multiprocessor kernels, I dunnoo about > suse. If they don't then you should install the kernel sources (should > be > there on the CD) and compile it for multiprocessor. Read > /usr/doc/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO for more info. > > > 2) the machine is identifying only 971MB instead of 1GB. > > You may have to give command line arguments to the kernel telling it > about > the 1GB RAM you got. In short add a line like > > append="mem=1024M" > > to your /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo. Then reboot. However make > sure > that you really have 1GB *free* for the OS. If not, then the m/c would > eventually crash badly. > > Kedar. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
