Re: kickstart installs UP kernel on SMP machines

[Tim Currie <tim algernonsystems com>]

Rick Stevens wrote:

> 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". 

Well, I installed 32 (at once!) and they all got the UP kernel. I must 
be doing something wrong. I'll have to look it over again before I do 
the next 32.

-Tim