RH or FreeBSD: dual processor support?

**Blaqb0x** · 11-14-2002, 11:20 PM

Hi,

I have this old micron box w/ dual pentium processors. Do I have to do anything special to get the dual processors to work on RH or FreeBSD?

Will the installation process configure itself to use the dual processors or do I have to tinker w/ the kernel.

thanx,

**tolstoy** · 11-15-2002, 01:47 AM

RH will install the correct (smp) kernel for you. As for BSD, I'm not sure.

**Schotty** · 11-15-2002, 06:34 AM

head over to screaming electron, the guys over there are bound to know exactly how its done. IIRC, its autodetected in the kernel (for FreeBSD at least, I know OpenBSD doesnt have support yet).

**Compunuts** · 11-15-2002, 08:08 AM

IIRC, Red Hat ( and many other distros that support SMP kernel ) supports up to 4 processors.

**ph34r** · 11-16-2002, 04:09 AM

Redhat 6.x used to give me a SMP kernel during install even though I had only one processor installed.

If RH doesn't do it automatically, you can always get the latest kernel source and recompile.

**Schotty** · 11-16-2002, 04:40 PM

[quote author=ph34r link=board=1;threadid=5592;start=0#53919 date=1037419764]
Redhat 6.x used to give me a SMP kernel during install even though I had only one processor installed.

If RH doesn't do it automatically, you can always get the latest kernel source and recompile.
[/quote]
RedHat 8 has the following kernels on the CDs:

686 Uni
686 SMP
586 Uni
386 Uni