Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 May 2006 16:21:18 -0600 | From | "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <> | Subject | Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? |
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Arjan,
On Sat, 27 May 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 13:52 -0600, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote: > > Arjan, > > > > On Sat, 27 May 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Redhat and SuSE put /boot/config- files of the same name for different > > > > architectures (i386, i586) in the same file. If multiple architecture > > > > kernels of the same verion are installed, there is no guarantee that the > > > > /boot/config-`uname -r` is not for, say, i686 instead of i386. > > > > > > at least on fedora you can't do that parallel installation anyway > > > > rpm --force > > at which point 95% of the files get overwritten including the config > file, which then points to the right place of the 2nd kernel you abuse > onto your system.
But not the right place for the running kernel. /boot/config-`uname -r` will be of the wrong architecture for the running kernel.
--brian
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