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OK first of all read this report:
Now read my comment I posted to a lockergnome linux
newsletter:
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Scribbled by Nathan "About Redhat 8. I sure did like all the past releases and thought that the redhat 7.3 was the best, I do so believe that very much now. I still favor 7.3 mainly because Redhat decided to not including the smp kernel into their distro which then forces me to put the breaks on installing redhat 8 since both of my only linux machines require the smp kernel in order to boot completely. Many people do believe that the smp kernel is just for those with more then one CPU, boy are they wrong. Thanks to Redhat's decision I'm now officially stuck with 7.3 unless 8.1 includes the smp kernel. Why does my systems require the smp kernel instad of the normal kernel you may ask. To put it simply my systems will not boot any services at all without that kernel and I have no idea why. It has something to do with the hardware. My point is redhat basically screwed us people whose machines require that kernel type such as those with multiple CPUs and no one wants an OS that isn't using all of their hardware on the machine. "Anyway I just wanted to share my complaint about what redhat 8 is missing that is very important and your newsletter has saved my butt more then a few times at least, So keep up with the great tutorials! :)" Now a reply to that:
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Scribbled by Matt Millard "Redhat 8.0 does indeed ship with two SMP kernels. One kernel for Intel processors and one kernel for Athlon processors. These kernels are included on disc 1 in /RedHat/RPMS as kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm and kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.athlon.rpm. "It sounds like you need to try and email the Red Hat 8.0 Psyche mailing list to see if other people with similar hardware are having the same problem with the installation. You can join the mailing list here. If your problem is specific to that hardware then we need to know more about what type of hardware you are running. "Hopefully this clears up the confusion about Red Hat not shipping an SMP kernel with 8.0."
Talk about being jerked around, for one if the smp kernel is in indeed with the redhat 8 distr then why cannot the installer install the packages? If because it's a source RPM(since it appears so) then that is useless to me since as noted on the bugzilla report my linux machines will not boot linux up correctly using the non-smp kernel. So much for upgrading..... So what am I suppose to do? I am very clueless to this point since this is giving me such a freakin headache... Linux Machines' hardware specs: -Nathan M. |
