Re: Russel Reiss' brother, linux question

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: "Randel Reiss" <http://www.GameLaw.ORG/~randel>
 > Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:55:22 -0800
 >
 > Robert,
 > 
 >   My name is Randel Reiss.  I am Russel Reiss' brother.  He mentioned that
 > you might be able to help me with a linux related question.  Although it
 > might be a Sun question.  Someone just handed me a nice dual 3GHz Xeon Sun
 > box.  RedHat linux 9 installed on it, without trouble, but I notice that the
 > second processor comes up with a warning that it is disabled.  The BIOS does
 > not allow me to enable the second processor.  Occasionally the linux boot
 > fails with warnings of "not enough time on processor," etc.  Normally it
 > boots fine.  A friend at Sun mentioned that there may be a way to enable the
 > second processor from a software command within Linux.  Have you ever heard
 > of such a thing?  Thanks in advance.

I have only run dual processors with x86 machines, not Sun machines.  When
I do, I installed a SMP-enabled kernel to get the dual processors to both
be used.  Having never run Linux on a Sun machine, I can only guess that
you probably need to do the same thing -- find a SMP-enabled kernel, or
else re-compile the kernel with SMP enabled.

Sorry, that's the most that I can offer you.

Good luck!

 >                                      -Randel
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