Can somebody shed some light on the new options that are now in my boot menu? I have the normal such as: OpenSuse 10.2 OpenSuse Fail-Safe 10.2 but now I have two other options which read: Opensuse 10.2 (XEN)
This is the Xen Kernel, only needed if one wants to use virtualization. What have you done between the old menu appearance and the new one? Could it be that you've selected Xen in a pattern or wanted to try out Virtualization?
Kernel-2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp
Hmm. The bigsmp kernel is used for i386 architectures with more than 4GB of RAM. What system do you use, 32bit or 64bit - thus i386 or x86_64? Some people are confused by the differences between the SMP and BIGSMP kernels included in SUSE Linux, and which one to use for their system. A quick look at the build configuration for both kernels shows several differences, but the most significant involves the supported amount of RAM and number of CPUs. The SMP kernel contains the following parameters: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32 ==> Thus allowing a maximum of 4G RAM and 32 processors. The BIGSMP kernel, however, has these: CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y CONFIG_NR_CPUS=128 Enabling support for 64G memory and 128 processors. ==> If a system has either more than 4G RAM or more than 32 processors, the BIGSMP kernel must be used to fully utilize the system.
What are these new options and where did they come from?
I can't tell you where they exactly came from, but maybe you can. What is the last thing you've done before you've first seen this (changed) menu?
Thanks guys Chris
OH THanks Ken for that update fix!! it worked great!
Greetings -- Alex