Agile Aspect wrote: > Hi - is it possible to load a SMP version of a kernel on a system running > a single CPU version of the kernel without a reboot? > > For instance, a quad CPU system was accidentally booted as > > 2.6.9-78.0.5.EL > > but we need to load > > 2.6.9-78.0.5.ELsmp > > instead. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > you have to reboot to load a different kernel, there's no way to avoid that.