[WBEL-users] I see that RHEL 3.0u3 is released - when can Whitebox respin 2 beexpected?

[Jan-Albert van Ree]

On Wednesday 08 September 2004 21:13, Robert wrote:
> When installing WBEL x86_64 Respin 1 on my dual Opteron box, I noticed that
> if I went to an Alt-F2 console during the install and did uname -a, it told
> me I was running an SMP kernel. Is that by design or is it an oops? Seems
> to make it extra tricky to come up with drivers that will work during the
> install. But I don't have the corresponding RH version to see if they did
> the same thing. Just curious.

The installer detected you have 2 Opterons. You can't use both CPU's unless 
you run an SMP kernel...
wrt drivers : the SMP kernel comes with the same modules as the default 
kernel, so if it's in WBEL, there are SMP-compatible drivers.
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