Messages in this thread | | | From | "Fred Reimer" <> | Subject | RE: Building .config into the kernel | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:31:31 -0500 |
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> Barrett G. Lyon > >True, but it's also much less useful. It assumes you can > identify which > >kernel image you booted, etc. > > Can't you do something like: > cat vmlinux | grep "version" | head -1 ; uname -a > > and match the build numbers? Just use gzcat on machines that use a > compressed kernel such as the Alpha.
No. Who says you are using vmlinux and not bzImage. What if you booted off a floppy and don't have it anymore? What happens if you build several kernels with the same version but different config options and don't remember which one you loaded at the lilo prompt (assuming you're using lilo)? Even if they were still around, you couldn't tell which one was booted (the version number would be the same).
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