Problem: FC6 on DualCore Athlon runs only 1 CPU

[Casey Stamper]

On 6/13/07, ne... <guhvies at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/13/07, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:17:10 +0100
> > "ne..." <guhvies at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The latter ones
> > > such as the one the OP mentioned are able to automagically detect the
> > > smp-ness of the cpu.
> >
> > It still shows (or should show) SMP in the output from uname -a, even
> though the
> > kernel rpm doesn't specifically say "smp".
> You are correct. I just checked this on my FC7 install. I guess the OP
> would have to give details on the mobo being used, the chipset and
> BIOS version. This might help.
>
> ne...
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AIUI, you have to pass the argument of something like linux=i686 when you
first install. If you've already installed, there's a way to fix it but I've
lost the link. It IS able to be recovered, however. FC6 has this well-known
bug.

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Casey Stamper
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