At 21:42 15-07-02 -0400, Stephen Brown wrote: >Hi All, > There was a posting back in 1999 requesting an SMP version of >tomsrtbt, and I didn't see a reply in the archives. My thoughts were >that the single processor kernel would just recognize one of the >processors and happily run... but then I thought maybe I remembered it >backwards (that an SMP kernel would run on the only processor >available). > Anyway, I am now troubleshooting the first dual processor box >I've run into, using tomsrtbt, and I'm not sure my booting problems are >hardware or not. I'll build an SMP kernel and try to shoehorn it onto >the floppy if the consensus is that that is necessary, but I didn't see >kernel source in the unpacked stuff, and I've been asleep on the mailing >list (and didn't see info in the FAQ) so I'm not even sure what version >to pick up from the kernel.org archives... Oh, nevermind, just looked at >/proc/version. Have 2.2.20 source available. > >Steve Brown >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a dual processor Compaq 2500R. It started out with dual PPros, now it has dual P-IIs. I have tried two versions of tomsrtbt on the dual P-IIs: 1.7.361 and 2.0.103. Both boot without problems (at least concerning the processors; I do have problems with the later version and my hard disk controller). So I think your first thought was correct--the single processor kernel recognizes one of the processors. Carsten
