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" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------