From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 12:11:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pan.ch.intel.com (pan.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EAF337BFAB for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by pan.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.22 2000/04/06 17:58:51 dmccart Exp $) with ESMTP id MAA07949 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:04:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.10 2000/02/10 21:38:16 steved Exp $) with ESMTP id MAA12407 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:04:01 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-To: X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id PAA11798; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:04:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: hip186.ch.intel.com: jreynold set sender to jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com using -f From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14580.51371.762330.305509@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:04:11 -0700 (MST) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SMP with dual-boot (win98) question X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.3.11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I searched the archives to try and answer this, but came up dry. I've got an ASUS P2B-DS motherboard with 1 processor in there now. I'm currently in the process of purchasing a second processor so that I can experiment with the SMP features of 4.0 (not that 3.x didn't have SMP ... I am just on 4.0 now ;). However, I've got to keep Win98 around on another disk for the wife so she can boot into it for certain apps. The question I have is: does anybody currently have this configuration, i.e. two processors with SMP kernel but dual boot into win98? Will win98 happily "ignore" the second processor and run "normally," or will having the second one there confuse it? I've never messed with SMP machines before but I assume that during the boot process the kernel running on CPU0 has to initiate the second CPU to start running. So, my theory is that win98 will happily ignore the second CPU sitting there. True? Thanks, -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message