Re: Redhat and Dual CPUs

From: John Thompson (john_at_starfleet.os2.dhs.org)
Date: 12/04/03 

Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:13:23 GMT

On 2003-12-04, Johannes Theile <newsfilter-1234567-2111@theile.org> wrote:

> i recently installed RH 9 on my machine, which has 2 Intel Pentium MMX
> CPUs. Now I ran top and saw that there is only one CPU running.
> What can I do now to get the second one running, too? Do i have to
> recompile the kernel? How to do this? Is there a good manual/tutorial to
> this understandable for a linux newbee?

You need to install the SMP kernel. It should be on the first CD in
RedHat/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.4.20-24.9.i686.rpm

>From a root shell, run
rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.4.20-24.9.i686.rpm

and then reboot, selecting the SMP kernel from the boot loader. 

-- 
-John (JohnThompson@new.rr.com)