Re: [debian-knoppix] non-SMP kernel
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:40:25PM +0100, Klaus Knopper wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:57:58PM +0100, Robert Vanyi wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > Is it possible to replace the kernel on the boot floppy (created from
> > boot.img) with a non-SMP kernel?
>
> If you do this, you also have to replace the modules on the compressed
> CD image to fit the kernel, and recompile cloop.
>
> > I have successfully replaced the kernel with another, although an SMP
> > kernel. When I tried it with a non-SMP kernel, INIT just froze (after
> > writing out the version).
>
> Probably at the first attempt to load modules from the CD.
>
> Why would you want to use a non-SMP-Kernel? You can just disable SMP
> support by saying
>
> knoppix nosmp
>
> at the boot:-Prompt.
>
I would have thought that a non SMP kernel would have been smaller. Am I
mistaken?
--
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neither liberty nor safety."
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