Intel S5000PAL manual SMP Motherboards and Grub

Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4*

Intel® Server Board S5000PAL

∙Commercial boot loaders - You can load Linux using commercial boot loaders. For example, System Commander and Partition Magic are able to boot Linux (but still require GRUB to be installed in your Linux root partition).

Note: Boot loaders such as LOADLIN and System Commander are considered to be third-party boot loaders and are not supported by Red Hat.

SMP Motherboards and GRUB

This section is specific to SMP motherboards only. SMP, short for Symmetric Multiprocessing, is a computer architecture providing fast performance by making multiple CPUs available to complete individual processes simultaneously (multiprocessing).

∙If the installation program detects an SMP motherboard on your system, it automatically creates two boot loader entries.

Note: An SMP kernel is installed by default on Intel® Pentium® 4 systems with hyperthreading.

∙The two GRUB entries are Red Hat Enterprise Linux (kernel version) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (kernel version-smp). The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (kernel version-smp) boots by default. However, if you have trouble with the SMP kernel, you can elect to boot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (kernel version) entry instead. You retain all the functionality as before, but only operate with a single processor.

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