Warning... Newbie Newbie Newbie Warning...... I just upgraded from McMillan 5.2 to 'official' RH6.0. I have been working with Linux for almost a month... Machine is SuperMicro P6DBS MotherBoard, 2x 500Mhz PIII, 256 Mb ram, PCI EtherExpress 10/100 nic, Diamond SpeeedStar Pro video, 1 IDE @ 1.5 GB and 1 SCSI @ 1.05 Gb. Install was from distribution floppy & local CDROM. I installed default server config and worked with it for a day or so before checking /proc/cpuinfo. Only 1 processor.... rebuilt kernel & second processor appeared & worked fine. I tried loading Gnome & 'E', but only managed to prove my lack of X configuration knowledge. Re-installed (not upgraded) default workstation config. Gnome & 'E' worked fine, but NO SMP kernel... Rebuilt kernel again & managed to kill PPP. One processor kernel supported PPP, SMP kernel would connect then fail on ioctl (PPPxxCGUNIT) (I believe). second attempt to rebuild kernel resulted in non-bootable machine.. Re-Installed using 'Custom' config option. Install went well, and SMP kernel loaded fine.... Lowest priority (for me) since I have working SMP machine & a lot more to learn before I need to re-install. I'd like to install default server ( best fit for ultimate use ) Thanx for the wonderful product and support!
The installer does some funky low level assembly to try and detect SMP capable motherboards. It has been known to not work properly with some BIOS's and motherboards so it will not be the solution for all people. It is although very simple to install the SMP rpm package after the system is back up and running by doing the following: Mount install media and change into /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS and: rpm -Uvh kernel-smp-2.2.5-15.i386.rpm From inside the /boot directory run: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.5-15smp.img 2.2.5-15smp The you need to edit lilo.conf and change the following: change image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 to image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15smp and also change: initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img to initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15smp.img Save the new file and run the lilo command from the prompt. You will need to re-boot the machine for the changes to take place.