> I'm new to UNIX and even newer to Linux. My employer wants me to install
> RedHat 6.0 on a Quad Pentium Pro 200 MHz machine. It installed well, but
> it only recognizes, so far as I can tell, only one of the CPUs. So now I
> have the following questions:
>
> 1) How can verify how many CPU's are actually being used? I have tried
> top and "cat /proc/cpuinfo". Both seem to indicate only one CPU.
>
> 2) gnome-linuxconf indicates there are two kernels in the system, one
> for SMP. How do I know which one actually loaded?
>
> LILO linux configurations
> linux /dev/sdb1 /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15smp
> linux-up /dev/sdb1 /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
>
Have a look at /etc/lilo.conf. The first section indicates the
kernel loaded by default.
> Uh, does the "linux-up" mean what I fear it does?
>
> 3) Are there any ways to boot the system, in case the non-SMP kernel is
> being used, so that I can find out why the default SMP kernal was
> rejected? Is there a log file I can check?
Each kernel image has a tag associated with it. You can introduce
this at the lilo prompt to choose between them (in your case "linux"
and "linux-up").
Try "dmesg" to have a look at kernel boot messages. This should give you all
you
need.
>
> Since I have also installed Windows 2000 Server on the same computer
> (first drive, second partition; linux is on second drive), I currently
> boot the system from a floppy disk.
>
This changes everything. You are (probably) booting the kernel image
in your floppy disk and not using lilo.
Rui Sousa
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