Kernel for SMP VIA C3 machines

[Jarod Wilson]

On Monday 27 March 2006 17:32, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "DJ" == Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> writes:
> >>
> >> FC5 doesn't install a SMP kernel on this machine
>
> DJ> sounds like an installer bug.
>
> The default install is kind of bizarre:
>
> title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/vg0/root vga=6
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
> title Fedora Core-up (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/vg0/root vga=6
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
>
> I'm not sure why it decided to include two identical stanzas with
> "-up" appended to one.  The one kernel that's installed is the i586 UP
> one.  I installed the i686 UP kernel, and it does start to boot but
> panics around the time it should mount the real root filesystem.  This
> might just be an initrd thing; can you install both the i586 and i686
> kernels at the same time?

I'd wager that if the installer only gave you an i586 kernel, it didn't give 
you the i686 glibc either. I wonder if that could be inducing some of the 
problems you're seeing w/i686 kernels... I'd check your glibc version...

rpm -q --qf='%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' glibc

...and maybe try slapping the i686 one in there for giggles.

(Note to self, maybe its time to see what an FC5 install does on my own 
EPIA...)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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