Prakash Velayutham wrote:
What I asked was, doesn't SuSE's installation scripts detect the proper CPU's and load the kernel compiled for the correct Processor family?
No, it loads a default kernel that will work for all Intel x86 processors since Pentium I. If you want to run a kernel that's specifically built for your hardware, you'll need to configure and build it yourself.
Also I just now checked another P4 Xeon box that I have and in that it has properly loaded the P4 Xeon processor family kernel. Anyone with an idea here?
Where did you get the P4 Xeon processor family kernel? SUSE 9.3 does not ship with a kernel built for P4s, AFAIK. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Let us analyse your spam- and virus-threat - up to 2 months for free.