Fwd: [NTLUG:Discuss] Slackware

[agoats]

SMP + Symetrical Multi Processor. Typically, one CPU is clocked 180
degrees out of phase with the other and both share the same memory. This
allows you to split the work between two CPUs and effectively double
their speed. The kernel MUST have SMP turned on or it won't use the
other CPU's.


Slackware has multiple boot kernels and you need to use one that
reflects your SCSI card. Mine is an Adapatec, so the boot kernel must be
adaptec.s  This will find any Adaptec controller and enable SCSI from
the start. Slackware is built this way so that you can make 3 (used to
be 2) boot up floppies for machines that won't read the CD at boot up.
First disk is the boot disk with the appropriate hardware boot drivers,
like Adaptec, ATA RAID, IBM MCA, etc. 

You could boot the CDROM and when it prompts you:

adaptec.s  root=/dev/<your cdrom hdb, hdc...> noinitrd ro

which should boot the CDROM with the Adaptec kernel.


LILO.... lilo can be loaded to the first Super Block or the MBR. Grub
likes to use the MBR. I've found it better to use MS-DOS to create the
MBR, let LILO use the first Super Block and make that partition
bootable. This let's me dual boot Windows98 and Slackware without much
trouble. 

I'm currently running Slack 10.1 and going to upgrade to 10.2...
thinking about the 2.6 kernel this time...

Alvin