On Tue, 2 May 2000, Christopher wrote:
)I hear that a lot, that its supposed to auto-detect for SMP - but in my
)case, it never has....huh. Dunno if its my hardware, other operating
)systems such as BeOS and Winblows NT detect both CPUs without a hitch. Ah
)well....hmmmm.
i agree. as i said previously, i've tried it with a clean gigabyte
dual-board a few times. it didn't matter a fig whether i had a single or
dual cpu or whether the dip switches were set for single or dual mode
operation. it just wouldn't install the smp kernel. but you can set it
in lilo very easily. look in lilo.conf. still, it's a pain.
)~Christopher
)
)> ~Christopher
)>
)> Yes, 7.0 will detect the SMP automatically during installation and
)> install an SMP kernel. No worries there.
)>
)> 7.0 doesn't, out of the box, work the with UDMA/66 interfaces on the BP6
)> board though. It'll make a boot disk during installation for you, but
)> it won't let you install on those drives. A bit annoying, since the
)> patches for the HPT366 interface have been available since the 6.1
)> days...
)>
)> --
)> Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I
)> Network Administrator
)> Advance Packaging Corporation
)> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
)>
)
/pete
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