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

[Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>]

Bradley Molnar wrote:

> 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

The help entry for the SMP kernel config option says that an SMP kernel 
will work on "many but not all" single processor motherboards.

--
Will Dyson
"It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom. Keep that in 
mind at all times." -Bill Hicks


______________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group       -      http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion  -  http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug