"Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:04:02 -0800, Bill
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>> >(E-Mail Removed) says...
>> >> Thinking of upgrading to that M/B and CPU, using one of those versions
>> >> of Suse Linux.
>> >>
>>
>> >
>> > SUSE 10.0 is free for the download.
>> >
>> > Try alt.os.linux.suse for answers.
>> >
>>
>> I was hoping to get here the M/B perspective as well, Bill,
>> though, frankly, my main concern is whether SuSE 9.1 and 9.2 will work
>> on AMD dual-core CPUs.
>>
>> Because I'm planning to buy the Asus A8V M/B, I figured somebody
>> in this newsgroup would have ith tthe same board with an AMD dual-core
>> CPU AND be running it with SuSE Linux.
>>
>> Alas, responses have been, uh, light!
>>
>> LSG
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Thought they might be, hence my suggestion. Don't have an A8V board my
> self, But if you can load the SMP kernel variant on it, it should
> support dual core cpu's. I thought I saw some body in a.o.l.s answer
> you in the affirmitive. Is there some reason not to go with SUSE 10.0?
> Or 9.3 even?
>
> Bill
Don't know if this helps, but here goes. I loaded SUSE 10 on an A8N-E with
a single core 3200 with no problem.
I assume any linux distro should automatically load the SMP kernel upon
detection of any x86 multiprocessor architecture regardless of whether it is
dual-core or two or more independent CPUs.
One note of caution, though, if your dual booting, SUSE likes to overwrite
the MBR and locks a bit, so to restore it you have to get a MBR tool and
overwrite all the bits in the MBR to zero then run "fdisk /mbr".
john