On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Nathan wrote: [deletia] > 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... Please tune your email program to word wrap at 76 characters, thanks. So on my archive/installer system, if I grep the directory containing all the RedHat 8.0 rpms with an arguement of "kernel", I get the following. [kgmorse@ocelot kgmorse]$ ls -1 /scratch/ftp/pub/redhat/8.0/en/os/RedHat/RPMS/ | grep kernel kernel-2.4.18-14.athlon.rpm kernel-2.4.18-14.i586.rpm kernel-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-14.i386.rpm kernel-bigmem-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm kernel-doc-2.4.18-14.i386.rpm kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-9.i386.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.athlon.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm kernel-source-2.4.18-14.i386.rpm kernel-uml-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm kernel-utils-2.4-8.13.i386.rpm Ummm. well that's a bit much, so I'll try: [kgmorse@ocelot kgmorse]$ ls -1 /scratch/ftp/pub/redhat/8.0/en/os/RedHat/RPMS/ | grep kernel | grep smp kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.athlon.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm Aaah, better. So to correlate my findings with your posting. There is indeed a SMP kernel package. Compiled. But compiled for i686. i686 architecture didn't come out until the pentium pro series and the pentiums are considered i586 IIRC. > Linux Machines' hardware specs: > CPU: Pentium 233MHz MMX > Ram: 192MB EDO > Harddrives: Many > Motherboard: ASUS P1 something. > RAID Card: Yes, don't know the info on that either. I think your original synopsis is correct. You will be stuck at RedHat 7.3 until one of two things occur. You upgrade this platform to a newer generation of processor or you compile or convince somebody to compile a i586 architecture SMP kernel for RedHat 8.0 and newer. With respect to the compiling part, this will have to become practice as new kernels are released. I saw a discussion on either valhalla-list or one of the beta lists, about RedHat supplying such a critter. I got the impression that RedHat probably will not as the number of systems requiring this are small.
