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Re: [PLUG] Multi-Processor Support
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In general, SuSE 9.0 and 9.1 work fine on multi-processor
machines. The installer probably doesn't use them both, but after boot
you should have an SMP kernel installed. Did you go through the full
install and reboot and it still didn't have an SMP kernel? What do you
have in /boot? Worst case, you can probably install the SMP kernel RPM by
hand to get it running.
Aaron
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Aaron Crosman wrote:
> This morning my new toy was released to my care. I'm about to start the
> process of moving our mailman machine from an old desktop, to a retired
> server. The new server should provide more then enough power to handle
> stupidly large lists. It's an HP Netserver LC 2000. Dual 1 GHz P3's. 2
> 18 GB SCSI HD. Oodles of RAM.
>
> This is the first machine I've worked with that had multiple processors
> (well, I set one up in college, but we noticed 3 months later we were
> only using 1). I booted with a Knoppix 3.6 CD and it detected all the
> hardware fine, including both drives and both processors. So I switched
> to the SuSE 9.1 installer CD and the first thing it did was complain
> that it could not work with one of the drives. Then I noticed it only
> detected 1 Processor. So now I'm looking for suggestions for suggested
> next steps.
>
> My inclination is to switch to Debian Sarge, but I don't know that it
> will go any better. I'm inclined towards defiant since our live web
> server is also Debain and it'll limit the number of distributions I'm
> trying to keep track of. That said if I switch this machine to Debain
> I'll only have 1 SuSE machine left that I plan to migrate between
> servers in a week or two as well so I could easily switch at that point.
>
> So: Does is it relatively easy to install Debian with multi processor
> support? Is there a better distro (excepting RHE, which I have no
> budget for) that you all would recommend (if so why is it better)? Or
> does someone that works with SuSE know of something foolish that I over
> looked? Everything I've read suggests that YAST should just work, and
> it's not likely to be convinced if it fails.
>
> Thanks
> Aaron
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