Re: kickstart installs UP kernel on SMP machines

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Tim Currie wrote:
> Hi!
>  I've gotten my cluster of 32 Dell machines up and running finally, but 
> one of the scientists pointed out to me today that the stupid things are 
> all running kernel-2.4.20-20.9, not kernel-smp-2.4.20-20.9. I installed 
> the correct kernel (and learned the hard way that, much like the human 
> apendix, the grub.conf file in /etc doesn't do anything-- the one in 
> /boot/grub is the real one) and restarted and now all my dual-CPU 
> machines show four CPUs (thank you, Intel, for hyperthreading: the most 
> useless marketing ploy since white-walled tires). Why would the 
> kickstart process install the wrong kernel? Is that a ks.cfg option? and 
> if so, why?!?

I've never seen a UP kernel install on an SMP machine unless something
was preventing the configurator from seeing the second CPU--and I've
installed LOTS of SMP machines.

Remember, "uname -r" is your friend, as is "cat /proc/cpuinfo".
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