[ale] lost a cpu core

Richard Bronosky Richard at Bronosky.com
Sun Mar 14 00:05:35 EST 2010


The MBP will boot off an external drive. I think you would save
yourself some time by installing 64bit RHEL 5.4 on a spare drive and
checking that out.

On 3/13/10, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Tim Watts wrote:
>> On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 17:35 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>>> Geoffrey wrote:
>>>> Geoffrey wrote:
>>>>> Upgraded my macbook pro to 64 bit RHEL, and now I only see one cpu core
>>>>>
>>>>> on my: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU
>>> .
>>> SMP motherboard not detected.
>>> .
>>> .
>>> SMP disabled
>>>
>>> So 'SMP motherboard not detected,' probably explains it, but the
>>> question is why???
>>>
>>
>> So you previously had a 32-bit RHEL and SMP worked but with 64-bit it's
>> disabled. A limitation of the motherboard?
>
> Problem is, I upgraded from 32 bit RHEL 5.4 to 64 bit 5.4.  Then to 64
> bit 5.5, which is still in beta.  I don't recall noticing if the 64 bit
> 5.4 had both cpus though.  I can't imagine that is a limitation of the
> mb, it's a macbook pro.  Certainly it would support multi-processor 64
> bit OS?
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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