| gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:20:13 +0100 |
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:52:54PM -0500, 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. Your friend's problem almost definitely had to do with the lack of a proper SMP-enabled system bus detection on attaching the motherboard during the boot sequence. That's not he same as Guillermo's problem. > 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). No, it flakes out because it doesn't see what it needs in the system bus. Do SMP kernels complain when there are only two processors installed on a board that can carry four? This is anoter specific form of the same general problem; there's no reason to bail if the hardware you're running on supports SMP. (The reasons to bail when it doesn't aren't particularly good, but they exist.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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