Hi Ralph Which brings me back to my original post: how do I enable multicore on a DG33BU motherboard, booting with pci=nommconf didn't change the situation :-( -- TIA Paolo On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de<ra%2Bcentos at br-online.de> > wrote: > Agile Aspect wrote: > > Paolo Supino wrote: > > > Hi Peter > > > > > > I tried that and it the result is the same: Linux only finds, > > > initializes and uses only 1 core ... :-( Is there anything else I can > > > try to have Linux initialize all 4 cores? > > > > > You're probably booting the single CPU kernel. > > > > Try booting the kernel ending with "-ELsmp". > > All CentOS 5 kernels are SMP kernels, there is no ELsmp kernel anymore. > Problem really seems to be missing ACPI functionality which leads to > the problem that only one core is found. > > Ralph > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090203/c75a4d86/attachment-0004.html>