3 Oct
2006
3 Oct
'06
3:11 p.m.
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 18:36 +0200, John Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 06:49 -0700, Stephen Hassard
wrote:
Maybe you had ACPI disabled? On many newer machines ACPI is required
for SMP to work.
Lee
John Anderson wrote:
I enabled all the SMP flags I could find in the kernel config. I've
looked at the output from dmesg I don't know how many times and it was
only reporting 1 processor. But when I go and look now it's actually
reporting 2. Doh! and Yay! at the same time. My PC died very suddenly on Sunday night (moment
of silence).
One can't buy Sempron processors here anymore, so yesterday I bought an
Intel DG965WH motherboard with a Core Duo E6600 and 2G of RAM. I managed
...
- And of course since the machine is still using
a 32 bit installation,
so there's only 1 processor :-|
Don't think that just because you're running in 32bits mode that your
second processor isn't available. Boot an SMP kernel and your other
processor should come up fine.