[Nottingham] Server/SMP

[Alex Herington]

Hi all,

I'm going slightly crazy trying to figure this one out :/

I just bagged a Compaq Proliant 6400R server from eBay. 4x 500MHz Xeons, 
2GB RAM, 4x 18GB SCSI HDDs on hardware RAID, came preloaded with 
Win2kServer which ran fine. Naturally I want to treat it to some Linux 
lovin' so I've installed Fedora Core 5.

The annoying thing is it's only detecting 1 CPU! Or more to the point 
it's specifically saying (in dmesg) that it can't detect an SMP capable 
motherboard. I know it's an SMP capable kernel. Bumflaps. I've tried 
hunting for kernel parameters to pass from GRUB but nothing too useful 
there (nosmp and maxcpus, and I tried maxcpus=4).

I don't want to give in and dump something I know is Compaq supported on 
there yet like RH7 (plus I can't find any RH7 ISOs!). Can anyone think 
of anything I could try? Please? :(

Pulling a late one,
Alex