What choices to you have in the boot menu?
If one has the acronym "SMP" in the title, then that means the operating system installed an SMP kernel in addition to a uniprocessor kernel. This is why you are seeing two choices in the bootloader menu.
If your system has a hyperthreaded CPU, then the operating system will see the single CPU as 2 CPU's...thus the installer will automatically install an smp kernel.
The single CPU kernel is also installed because this will give you something to "fall back" on if you have problems with the SMP kernel.
Hope that helps!
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