When I installed, I had to manually select the SMP kernel (and a number
of other things because I chose custom installation for Redhat 6.1).
I think that the default is not smp and, if you are planning on
re-installing, you should select this kernel as well. Linux
automatically detected my cpus and set the smp kernel as the default
when I told it to install this kernel as well as the non-smp kernel.
Just my $.02
-Andy
Juan Gonzalez wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have some questions regarding Linux installation on an SMP system.
>
> I'm using an IBM PC Server 320, which has dual Pentiums at 90 MHz on a
> Micronics motherboard.
> I installed Red Hat Linux 6.1 on the system hoping to run on both
> processors, but I believe it's only running as a uniprocessor.
>
> According to the Installation guide, the installation process will
> automatically recognize the machine as SMP and LILO should end up with 2
> entries: linux (default - SMP) and linux-up (to run as uniprocessor).
> Well, after installing in this system, LILO only shows one entry
> (linux), the same as the uniprocessor installations. In addition, going
> into GNOME, and checking the system details, I get a CPU report of what
> appears to be only 1 processor (processor 0). Please correct me if I'm
> wrong, but it seems to me that the installation process did not
> recognize the dual processors.
>
> I should mention that, in the past, I had installed Windows NT on this
> system, and it correctly identified it as SMP.
>
> Here are my questions:
>
> 1. Do I need to do anything special in order to install the SMP Linux
> kernel?
>
> 2. Is there a problem recognizing this particular system as SMP?
>
> 3. Once installed, how can I tell that the SMP kernel is indeed running
> and that it recognized the 2 processors?
>
> Any comments or pointers are welcome.
>
> Thank you,
> Juan
>
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