gen2 spake the following on 7/11/2007 11:02 AM:
Scott Silva wrote:
Is bios up to date? Does non zen kernel detect both processors?
Bios is not up to date, rather not go anywhere near that considering I can boot to the gentoo-minimal CD and see all 4 cores. Unless I'm not understanding something there...please explain if so. I assume if the bios is working for 2.6.16 gentoo, it should be fine for centos 2.6.18.
non zen kernel panics immediately on boot, 2.6.18-8.1.8 or 2.6.18-8.1.6.
But a kernel from RedHat is not equal to a kernel from Gentoo. Patches are added by each distro to comply with whatever patching ideal they have, or hardware they are trying to comply with. Unless it botches on install, a bios update usually doesn't hurt anything. I see install docs on the IBM site up to RedHat Ent.4, so it should be OK. But all the docs mention having the bios up to date.