You must also make sure you compile in RTC (real-time clock) support and disable APM if you're using SMP. > -----Original Message----- > From: dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu [mailto:dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu] > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 2:22 PM > To: tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] SMP on Red Hat different than generic kernel? > > > When compiling from the kernel source, did you edit the > config and choose > SMP? I should still run with a single CPU if you don't compile in SMP > support, but who knows. Also, you need to tell the kernel > config that you > have 686 CPUs. > > Gabe > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:13:15PM -0800, Carl Patten wrote: > > Hello, all. > > > > Today's grand goal is to make SMP work reliably on my test > system at home. I have an IBM PC 365 with two Pentium > Pro-200 processors that are within 2 steppings. When I > attempt to compile the generic 2.2.16 or 2.2.17 kernels > myself using the SMP how-to, I get a kernel that either will > not boot (halts at the "uncompressing the kernel..." message) > or boots exactly every other time. > > > > However, installing the Red Hat 2.2.16-SMP-kernel RPM from > the Red Hat updates directory produces a 100% reliable > system. Whatever they did in their kernel works for my > system. However, the updates directory doesn't have the source RPM. > > > > Any clues as to how I can find out what they changed so I > can reproduce it with a newer kernel, or on a different > version of Linux? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Carl Patten > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > --== Sent via Deja.com ==-- > > http://www.deja.com/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------ > Gabe Turner | X-President, > UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for > Computing Machinery > U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University > of Minnesohta > Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | > dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu > > "Look! It's my magic nose goblins!" -- Stimpy > "I finally get a good look at 'em!" -- Sven > - Stimpson J. Cat and Sven Hoek > in "Sven Hoek" > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------ > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >