ady wrote:
I was the one that reminded Victor that the standard PMagic dual 32/64 bits requires so many resources that it can't boot in some systems (like some Celeron ones that don't support PAE, for example). Also the necessary amount of RAM (and storage space) for PMagic keeps rapidly increasing too, but that's not an issue for this topic.
I see, but I myself don't see that customization is a solution.
Because of the change of the kernel, the tools in CPUstress won't be able to stress multiple CPUs. I consider this a feature loss, and I would need to recover that feature.
For now, I have only 3 choices:
1. Use the i686 PAE+SMP kernel from PMagic.
2. Keep using the i586 kernel and forget about the multiple CPUs.
3. Build a kernel from scratch.
Which one should I take? Please suggest one for me.