Problem: FC6 on DualCore Athlon runs only 1 CPU

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Wed Jun 13 20:49:49 UTC 2007


Casey Stamper wrote:
> 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.
The link Casey talks about is probably in the fedoraproject wiki:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common#head-e0676100ebd965b92fbaa7111097983a3822f143

DaveT.




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