I have tried to install SuSE 9.1 Pro on an old server at work. It is a dual processor Pentium III 800mhz machine with 1GB ram. The install only recognizes 1 processor. Is there anything special that I have to do during the install to make it recognize both processors. The machine used to have Redhat 7.3 and it recognized both processors. The harddrive cratered and I am not real fond of Redhat so I was upgrading but couldn't get both processors working. Any help is greatly appreciated. Darrell Cormier
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 10:30 pm, Darrell Cormier wrote:
I have tried to install SuSE 9.1 Pro on an old server at work. It is a dual processor Pentium III 800mhz machine with 1GB ram. The install only recognizes 1 processor. Is there anything special that I have to do during the install to make it recognize both processors. The machine used to have Redhat 7.3 and it recognized both processors. The harddrive cratered and I am not real fond of Redhat so I was upgrading but couldn't get both processors working.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Darrell Cormier ==========
First and most obvious question is, do you have the smp kernel installed? Usually it will recognize and install that, but sometimes due to some circumstance, it might not. Of course, this is assuming you haven't changed anything in your BIOS. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.82 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 I do everything my Rice Krispies tell me to do!
BandiPat wrote:
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 10:30 pm, Darrell Cormier wrote:
I have tried to install SuSE 9.1 Pro on an old server at work. It is a dual processor Pentium III 800mhz machine with 1GB ram. The install only recognizes 1 processor. Is there anything special that I have to do during the install to make it recognize both processors. The machine used to have Redhat 7.3 and it recognized both processors. The harddrive cratered and I am not real fond of Redhat so I was upgrading but couldn't get both processors working.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Darrell Cormier
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First and most obvious question is, do you have the smp kernel installed? Usually it will recognize and install that, but sometimes due to some circumstance, it might not. Of course, this is assuming you haven't changed anything in your BIOS.
Lee
Yes, it appears to be: # rpm -qa |grep kernel kernel-smp-2.6.4-52 I have not messed with the BIOS. During boot the CPU message states that there are 2 processors, so I know that both are recognized and technically functional. DC
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 05:41, Darrell Cormier wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 10:30 pm, Darrell Cormier wrote:
I have tried to install SuSE 9.1 Pro on an old server at work. It is a dual processor Pentium III 800mhz machine with 1GB ram. The install only recognizes 1 processor. Is there anything special that I have to do during the install to make it recognize both processors. The machine used to have Redhat 7.3 and it recognized both processors. The harddrive cratered and I am not real fond of Redhat so I was upgrading but couldn't get both processors working.
Yes, it appears to be:
# rpm -qa |grep kernel kernel-smp-2.6.4-52
I have not messed with the BIOS. During boot the CPU message states that there are 2 processors, so I know that both are recognized and technically functional.
And what leads you to believe that both processors aren't running? Mike -- Powered by SuSE 9.1 Kernel 2.6.4 KDE 3.2.1 Kmail 1.6.2 For SuSE Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 4:14pm up 7 days 23:18, 4 users, load average: 1.15, 1.19, 1.18
Mike wrote:
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 05:41, Darrell Cormier wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 10:30 pm, Darrell Cormier wrote:
I have tried to install SuSE 9.1 Pro on an old server at work. It is a dual processor Pentium III 800mhz machine with 1GB ram. The install only recognizes 1 processor. Is there anything special that I have to do during the install to make it recognize both processors. The machine used to have Redhat 7.3 and it recognized both processors. The harddrive cratered and I am not real fond of Redhat so I was upgrading but couldn't get both processors working.
Yes, it appears to be:
# rpm -qa |grep kernel kernel-smp-2.6.4-52
I have not messed with the BIOS. During boot the CPU message states that there are 2 processors, so I know that both are recognized and technically functional.
And what leads you to believe that both processors aren't running?
Mike
Mike, I based this assumption on the install. When it listed the system information I could see no indication that it recognized more than 1 processor. However,I just ran Yast on the machine and went to Hardware=>Hardware Info. and it lists both processors. Looks like they are both running. Sorry for the ignorant post, I should have checked hardware info first. Thanks for everyones input, Darrell Cormier
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 16:52, Darrell Cormier wrote:
and it recognized both processors. The harddrive cratered and I am not real fond of Redhat so I was upgrading but couldn't get both processors working.
Yes, it appears to be:
# rpm -qa |grep kernel kernel-smp-2.6.4-52
I have not messed with the BIOS. During boot the CPU message states that there are 2 processors, so I know that both are recognized and technically functional.
And what leads you to believe that both processors aren't running?
Mike
Mike, I based this assumption on the install. When it listed the system information I could see no indication that it recognized more than 1 processor. However,I just ran Yast on the machine and went to Hardware=>Hardware Info. and it lists both processors.
Looks like they are both running. Sorry for the ignorant post, I should have checked hardware info first.
It wasn't ignorant at all. I did the same thing with my first dual CPU machine. Actually I ran top and it kept showing only 1 cpu.. Then I read the fine man page, and found out that I had to supply a parameter to make it display both. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 9.1 Kernel 2.6.4 KDE 3.2.1 Kmail 1.6.2 For SuSE Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 5:15pm up 8 days 0:19, 4 users, load average: 1.31, 1.45, 1.33
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