Re: two linux kernels installed by RH7?

[Ian Northeast <ian house-from-hell demon co uk>]

Roger Atkinson wrote:
> 
> Actually, what the Installer does is detect an SMP *capable* machine and
> installs the SMP kernel by default, if the machine is SMP capable.  I
> have a number of machines with different MB's that are either SMP
> capable or have all hardware (except the second processor) and they are
> all running on the SMP kernel just fine on one processor. One of my
> older test platforms is an old PPro200 with one processor that installs
> the SMP kernel by default and it had never hiccuped. BTW I also have a
> couple of machine with Multiple processors and they run the SMP kernel
> as well.
> 
> You can get rid of the SMP kernel if you think you should but your
> system should run fine on either kernel.

Running the SMP kernel on a uniprocessor will be slightly slower than
the uniprocessor kernel.

Ian