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Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4.18.4. SMP Motherboards, GRUB, and LILO
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 will automatically create
two boot loader entries.
Note
Intel® Pentium® 4 systems with hyperthreading will have an SMP kernel installed by default.
The two GRUB entries will be
and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (kernel version)
Red Hat
. The
Enterprise Linux (kernel version-smp)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (kernel
will boot by default. However, if you have trouble with the SMP kernel, you can
version-smp)
elect to boot the
entry instead. You will
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (kernel version)
retain all the functionality as before, but you will only be operating with a single processor.
The two LILO entries will be
and
. The
entry will boot by default. However,
linux
linux-up
linux
if you have trouble with the SMP kernel, you can elect to boot the
entry instead. You will
linux-up
retain all the functionality as before, but you will only be operating with a single processor.
4.19. Network Configuration
If you do not have a network device this screen is not shown. Skip ahead to Section 4.20 Firewall
Configuration.
Figure 4-17. Network Configuration
The installation program automatically detects any network devices you have and display them in the
Network Devices list.
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