[wplug] smp

[William Powell]

I am running Mandrake 8.2 on my main home system. The mainboard is an 
MSI dual P3 up to 1Ghz. When I installed the Mandrake originally, I had 
a single 733Mhz P3 on the board. Several months ago, I upgraded the 
mainboard by removing the single 733 P3 and installing the dual 1.0 Ghz 
P3s for which the board was designed. The stock non-smp kernel ran just 
fine after the upgrade. But, I didn't spend the money for the new CPUs 
just too have one sit there idle. I popped the install CD in the drive 
and followed the upgrade path. After answering a few questions and 
rebooting, the SMP kernel was now at the bottom of my LILO boot menu. I 
selected it and things have been great ever since. I ran for a few weeks 
before I went in and edited the LILO config file to make the SMP kernel 
the default.

Bill

Chris wrote:

> Do most distros come with kernels for dual proc systems? If I throw in 
> a copy of RH 7.2, will it pick up the 2 procs and install the correct 
> kernel? Do the newer versions do that, if 7.2 doesn’t? I have an older 
> Dell with 2 450MHz procs and what to throw linux on it. I never messed 
> with dual proc systems.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>

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