Installation guide

and associated mirror sites.

Commercial boot loaders

You can load Linux using commercial boot loaders. For example, System Commander and

Partition Magic are able to boot Linux (but still require GRUB to be installed in your Linux

root partition).

Note

Boot loaders such as LOADLIN and System Commander are considered to be

third-party boot loaders and are not supported by Red Hat.

19.4. SMP Motherboards and GRUB

In previous versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux there were two different kernel versions, a uni-

processor version and an SMP version. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0.0 the kernel is SMP-

enabled by default and will take advantage of multiple core, hyperthreading, and multiple CPU

capabilities when they are present. This same kernel can run on single CPUs with a single core

and no hyperthreading.

20. Network Configuration

If you do not have a network device, this screen does not appear during your installation and

you should advance to Section 21, “Time Zone Configuration”.

19.4. SMP Motherboards and GRUB