Re: Dual cores on Core2Duo not detected?

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Hi Shaun,

Someone mentioned some bioses have an entry to enable the second core.

HTH,
Steve

Shaun Q wrote:

>Hi there everyone --
>
>I'm trying to build a custom kernel for using both cores of my new 
>Core2Duo E6600 processor...
>
>I thought this was simply a matter of enabling the SMP support in the 
>kernel .config and recompiling, but when the kernel comes back up, still 
>only one core is detected.
>
>With the default vanilla text-based SuSE 10.1 install, it does find both 
>cores...
>
>Anyone have any pointers for me on what I might be missing?
>
>Thanks!
>Shaun
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