SMP kernel

Larry D Sorensen larry.sorensen at juno.com
Thu Dec 21 20:21:46 UTC 2006


Thanks to Bill and Andrew. I will try it.

Larry
 
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:36:09 -0500 "Andrew Bacchi" <bacchi at rpi.edu>
writes:
> Larry,
> 
> This is a very simple upgrade.  I have both the smp and the single 
> processor
> kernel on all of my machines.  In case there is some problem 
> bringing up the
> smp kernel, I can use the single kernel for a while.
> 
> Using up2date do: "up2date -I  kernel-smp"  without the quotes.  
> This will
> install the smp kernel.  Then check /boot/grub/grub.conf to see that 
> it will
> be the default kernel.  default=0, if the first kernel in the list 
> is your
> newly installed smp kernel.
> 
> Then reboot and the check that you are using the correct kernel.
> 
> If you can't use up2date, you can download the kernel from redhat's 
> website
> and install it with "rpm -ivh package-name.rpm  This will do the 
> same as
> up2date.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> > On Behalf Of Larry D Sorensen
> > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 2:11 PM
> > To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: SMP kernel
> > 
> > I have already installed RedHat 4 on my server, but I realized 
> that I did
> > not use the SMP kernel to recognize and use both of my processors. 
> Is
> > there a way to add/update to the SMP kernel without reinstalling, 
> or do I
> > have to start from scratch and reinstall?
> > 
> > Larry
> > 
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