booting SMP-Kernel on Pentium 4...

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Feb 23 16:48:27 UTC 2006


Masopust, Christian wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> i installed FC4 a long time ago and it run fine with SMP-kernel
> ("original" kernel from install-cd).
> 
> after the first kernel update i never was able to boot SMP!
> (also with recent kernels).
> i tried to recreate initrd manually but with no success...
> 
> any idea what i can do ??
> 
> thanks,
> chris
> 
If I remember correctly, there were some problems found with the
hyperthreading, so it is now disabled. With it disabled, the P4 no
longer looks like 2 processors. Take a look at:

http://kerneltrap.org/node/5103

Mikkel
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