Topic: SMP Problem

[Gary Parker]

Hi everyone,
    I recently got hold of an ECS P6FX2-A dual Pentium Pro motherboard with 2 x 200MHz PPro's on it and 256Mb RAM and thought this would be an ideal upgrade for my e-smith system. After reading the (apparantly unmaintained) Linux SMP FAQ I was pleased to find this board listed in the 'Motherboards with no known problems' section. However, my installation doesn't seem to recognise both CPUs. Now I've already read quite a few posts on these forums about this, both CPUs are picked up in the BIOS, it detected an SMP system and installed the SMP kernel (I get both kernels offered at boot time).

'grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo' returns 1

'rpm -qa | grep kernel-smp' returns kernel-smp-2.2.19-7.0.8

Any ideas would be appreciated....

Gary

[Chaloner Hale]

Do they both have the same stepping code???

[Gary Parker]

Thanks Chaloner, but I sorted it....

For some odd reason it hadn't added the SMP kernel to lilo.conf, both entries (for esmith and esmith-up) were using the uni-processor kernel, weird, huh?

Anyways, I changed the lilo.conf to smp, ran lilo, rebooted and all is well....dual processor heaven

BTW, dunno if advertising is frowned upon on these forums, but if anyone is interested in building a *really* cheap PPro SMP box in the UK they'd do well to check out http://www.6thplanet.com as they're currently doing the bundle I got, which is an Elitegroup P6FX2-A mobo with 2 x PPro200/256k, 2 x VRM and 2 x heatsink for 81UKP (inc. VAT, for those of us that have to pay). I'm in no way affiliated with these guys or on their payroll, just a happy shopper....

Gary

[Brian Huntsbarger]

I have the same problem but backwards, it default boots to an smp kernel which i have a p4 1.4g as the server, and i cant get it to default to the non smp kernel