On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > >Shortly fter reinstalling FC3 yet again, > >I ran yum --update. > >After the next boot, > >my machine froze solid during login. > > > >Previously, this had been caused by > >trying to run an SMP kernel on a hyper-threaded cpu. > >For some evil reason, the SMP kernel was the default. > >Whoever made that decision should be shot. > > > You cant use HT features without using an SMP kernel. So when installer > detects a HT enabled system it installs the SMP kernel by default. Looks > a pretty sane decision to me. Now if the kernel crashes for you it is > probably due to some other problem. It would be a good idea to report > that into bugzilla I'm not sure what I would report. I install, I yum, I login, it freezes. I've been told that smp+hyperthreading is flaky, so it's not just me. Flaky should not be the default. -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "There are three kinds of people, those who can count and those who can't."
