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 > I think the problem is the power management stuff - turn it all off and see what happens. I thought I'd bookmarked a sight that stated this but I haven't been able to find it. I can mail you a 2.2.18 .config file that works very reliably with an SMP system. Good luck, Kent