I have just installed Suse 8.1 Pro - system contains an ABIT VP6 dual processor motherboard with 2 Pentium III processors. The install log shows that both processors were detected and SMP was to be used. Later in the log it says that only one processor will be utilized not both. Does anyone have any idea of what might be going on here before I have to pay Suse for support.

Thanks in advance...

Rod Jolliffe

Well... let's figure out if its actually using both chips:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

If you've got only 1 chip listed, it installed a uniprocessor kernel. Check to see if there's something cool in /boot like vmlinuz-SMP or something, then its just a matter of modifying the bootloader.

If not, and SuSe messed up, you can either check the CDs for an SMP kernel RPM, or just download the kernel source from kernel.org, read the kernel how-to over at linux-doc, and compile one yourself! Home brew kernels are the best kernels.

Cheers,

Finegan

Well I got it figured out -- I had the drives connected to the 370A drive controller. When I re-attached the cables to the standard IDE contoller connectors both CPU's were detected. Strange...

One complication though - it did force a re-install of SuSE. But at least all is working now.

Rod