Re: Booting w/ dual CPUs hangs
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On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:36 pm, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Saturday 27 December 2003 02:28 pm, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > I have a box with a Tyan Thunder dual CPU MB. The two CPUs I have
> > are both 300MHz Pentium IIs. But one is a Deschutes step 2 and the
> > other a Klamath step 4. Both work when they are the only CPU, but
> > booting with both installed hangs just after the NRG is initialized
> > and "Recovering nvi editor sessions". This is when init starts.
> > Do I need to get matching CPUs? Or is there something else I need
> > to do. The kernel is stock 2.4.18-1-686-smp from debian.org.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Jeffrey
>
> http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/19981215/sl2w8-01.html
Sorry about the brevity, I think the cpu's need to be the same or at
least the same core to do dual. Some docs mention matching cpu's
(stepping) but my somewhat limited experience indicates the same core
will do it.
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Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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