Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:04:11 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SMP with dual-boot (win98) question Message-ID: <14580.51371.762330.305509@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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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
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