On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 13:11 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 18:36 +0200, John Anderson wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 06:49 -0700, Stephen Hassard wrote: > > > John Anderson wrote: > > > > My PC died very suddenly on Sunday night (moment of silence). > > > > One can't buy Sempron processors here anymore, so yesterday I bought an > > > > Intel DG965WH motherboard with a Core Duo E6600 and 2G of RAM. I managed > > > ... > > > > - And of course since the machine is still using a 32 bit installation, > > > > so there's only 1 processor :-| > > > > > > Don't think that just because you're running in 32bits mode that your > > > second processor isn't available. Boot an SMP kernel and your other > > > processor should come up fine. > > > > I enabled all the SMP flags I could find in the kernel config. I've > > looked at the output from dmesg I don't know how many times and it was > > only reporting 1 processor. But when I go and look now it's actually > > reporting 2. Doh! and Yay! at the same time. > > Maybe you had ACPI disabled? On many newer machines ACPI is required > for SMP to work. That sounds likely. I remember turning on all the ACPI flags I could find, quite late in the config-compile-install-reboot dance. bye John
