Ah, now why did yum do that?

[david smethurst]

hi david
thanks for answering
i was wondering why up2date would say that i could put in a smp kernel
when i only have one cpu and amd hasnt put in the dual core as yet, soon
but not yet.
anyway now big deal ill just have to watch what it wants to install in
future
thanks again
david


On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 15:48 -0600, David Hoffman wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:35:58 +1100, david smethurst
> <davidjs at netspace.net.au> wrote:
> > hi all
> > i did a update yesterday and yum loaded in fedora core
> > (2.6.10-1.760_fc3smp)
> > this is a single cpu unit on a single cpu motherboard
> > amd 64 3500+ on msi k8nneo2 platium with 1gb ram
> > i also have installed fedora core
> > (2.6.10-1.760_fc3)
> > the out come is that with the smp kernel it will reboot at will
> > the standard 64bit kernel is stable
> > question is why did yum install the smp on a single cpu machine?
> > 
> > thanks for any info
> > david
> > 
> 
> I only have one CPU as well, but I am using the SMP kernel because
> it's a P4 with Hyperthreading. The system sees it as TWO cpus. I don't
> know if your CPU is detected as multiples or not, so I can't be
> totally sure of the answer. However, if you know that the single CPU
> version works fine for you then modify your grub.conf file to make
> that the default.
> 
> As far as I know, when you do a kernel update, you will get both
> versions (smp and regular) or at least that's how it seems to have
> worked for me over the past several kernel updates... one package, two
> versions.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> David
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