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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!