Re: maybe silly question ?

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:53:26 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, sebastien person wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have compiled a 2.4 kernel (I was on 2.2) and it seems that everything
> went well.

Did you install the new kernel?

> But when I tried uname -rs I found a 2.2 kernel ? Is it possible
> that the 2.4 kernel run and that uname -rs result is wrong ? what
> really does uname -rs , does it use proc system or maybe anything else ?
>
> Thanks

It displays the information that is in the top 4 lines of the Makefile
used to build the kernel. If `uname` doesn't display information of
this type, you did not boot your newly-made kernel.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.5 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).

I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.

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