smp kernel bash script

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 12.01.2005 schrieb Chadley Wilson um 16:19:

> When you install Fedora 2 or 3 it detects which CPU and then loads either the 
> smp or normal kernel for you. when it loads the smp it stills give the normal 
> as an option in grub.
> My script simply says something like this ( IIRC don't have it with me! ) :
> 
> uname -a |grep smp
> if [$? -eq 0 ] then 
> rpm -ivh kernel-smp.*.rpm
> rpm -ivh kernel-smp.*.src
> 
> you get the picture I hope ;)
> 
> Today my script bites the dust as it installed a std kernel when it should 
> have installed the smp.
> I can easily fix this. Thats not the issue.

> How can check if the cpu is an smp and add some test to my script. This way 
> even if the Fedora gets it wrong my script will fix it when applying all my 
> atches and upgrading the kernels.

grep "cpu1" /proc/stat

Test this. If at least cpu1 appears there, then you have an SMP system.
This is more reliable than to check whether an SMP kernel is running.
 
> Chadley Wilson

Alexander


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