On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 02:15:59PM +1100, David Booth enlightened us: > Matt Hyclak wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:03:41PM -0600, Johnny Hughes enlightened us: > >>>Craig White had also written > >>> > >>>"You could probably repeat for smp kernel if you have multiple > >>>processors" > >>> > >>>I will need to do that but I don't know what you mean - do I need driver > >>>disks for that too? > >>> > >>You should not need driver disks for install for an smp kernel. > >> > >>The installer uses the regular kernel and not an smp kernel. > > > >Well, you need them at install time in the sense that if you want the > >system > >to boot to the SMP kernel when your done installing, it has to be there. > > > >Matt > > > Thanks, but this doesn't help. > I'm installing on an HP with dual processors. > (And a dual processor Acer after that.) > > Craig mentions "repeat for smp kernel" in the context of compiling the > megaraid driver first with kernel-devel-xx.i586 and then again with > kernel-devel-xx.686 and loading them at install time in a special sequence. > > Is there something similar that needs to be done with > kernel-smp-devel-xx.i586/686? Compile what? Load when? > > Suppose I can get the megaraid scsi driver working and Centos4.4 > installed and running: can I ignore the smp stuff and sort it out later? Yes, you'll just have to boot the UP kernel until you do. It should just be a matter of repeating the same steps with kernel-smp-devel and putting the resulting .ko files in /lib/modules/xxx.ELsmp And actually, I don't think the 586 stuff is needed anymore since as of CentOS 4.4, the installer uses the i686 kernel unless you specifically request i586 on the boot line. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263