RE: [PLUG] Dual processor box using only one processor

["Bradley Molnar" <brmolnar@ursinus.edu>]

I'm not totally sure, but, I know that a friend of mine accidently installed
the smp kernel on his SuSE 7.1 box.  It took him a week to figure out why
the thing wouldn't boot.  Since this was a 2.4 kernel and presumably
'smarter' than a 2.2 kernel and the 2.4 wouldn't work with an SMP kernel on
a single processor system, I would think that this would not work for you
either.  The problem is, the kernel sort of hangs during startup waiting for
the second processor to respond (and since the second processor isn't there,
it waits forever).

It may work, but, in short, I don't think that it would

-brad

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[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Guillermo Moyna
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:46 PM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Dual processor box using only one processor


Hi gang,

I have three dual processor boxes with the 2.2.16-3smp kernel
installed (RH 6.1). The three are identical, because I created them
by using 'dd' from one of HDD into the other two. Meaning, their
configurations are cloned, which means they are the same (I only
changed their IP addresses).

Here's the problem. I realized that one of the machines reports only
one processor, both during boot and using xosview. My question is,
could an SMP kernel still chug along happily with a fried processor
on the motherboard?

TIA,

Guillermo
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