upgrading to an SMP kernel

[Gordon Price]

Kind Folks,

   I am running into an issue that has me really bugged. I have one 
machine that has the *2.6.11-1.27FC3smp* kernel and another with the 
*2.6.11-1.27FC3* non-smp kernel. I need to use the smp version for a 
project that only works with this version of FC3 that uses a USB 2.0 
video device I designed.  I have looked everywhere I know to figure out 
how to get the smp kernel on the non-smp  machine, and I can not seem to 
back track the steps correctly.

    I have tried yum every which way but loose, and can not get an smp 
kernel period, to install or upgrade on the non-smp machine. Yum wants 
to upgrade me to 2.6.12, and I don't want to do that.

   On the machine that does not have the smp kernel, I tried copying all 
the smp files (4) that were in /boot on the smp machine to the /boot 
directory on the non-smp machine. I then added an entry in 
/etc/grub.conf for the smp kernel boot. This does not work at all. This 
issue makes me worry that Linux hard drives may be more difficult to 
move from machine to machine in a pre-configured format than I had 
wished????

   Specifically, how would you try to upgrade the non-smp machine to smp 
without trashing what is already on it??? Could Linux be looking at the 
hardware itself and deciding that maybe it can not support the smp 
version in the first place???

Thanks,

Gordon
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