Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:09:01 -0500 (EST) | From | <> | Subject | Re: What kernel version am I REALLY running? |
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On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 alano@summanulla.pcx.ncd.com wrote:
> > > On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Jonathan wrote: > > > > > I am running kernel version 2.2.6 or at least I should be ..... I compiled > > > etc. on SuSE Linux 6.0 which is suposed to be 2.2 ready. The kernel > > > installed in /vmlinuz as usual, but when I reboot the intro still says I am > > > running 2.0.36 and so does /proc/version and uname -r ..... I wouldn't care > > > except now I can't load modules because the setting for the modules > > > directory is /usr/modules/uname -r .... which is returning 2.0.36 instead of > > > 2.2.6 .... this is preventing me from using PPP in linux..... please help. > > > > > If `uname -r` is returning 2.0.36, you are running 2.0.36. If you don't > > believe this do `cat /proc/version`. > > > > Uname makes a 'C' runtime library call with a pointer to a structure > > containing various members (sysname, nodename, release, version, machine, > > and domainname). It then prints the results. > > > > You probably did not install your new kernel after you built it, even > > though you thought you did. > > [Not certain why this is in kernel list, but anyways...] > > I have run into this a while back on Redhat. > > Look in /etc/lilo.conf to see where lilo wants the kernel to be. It is not always in /vmlinuz. Sometimes it is in /boot. (Redhat likes to call it all sorts of things as well.) > > He may need to uncomment and modify the "boot=" line in /usr/src/linux/Makefile. (I know Redhat does not uncomment this line in the sources they distribute. Not certain about SuSe.) >
The last time I ran into this all i had to do was run lilo to update things and that seemed to work. After a reboot it started reporting the proper kernel versions.
Jeremiah Hord / UITS Support Center - IUPUI
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