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From: Gabriel Rossetti <rossettigab@charter.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:24:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C88FAB.9090703@charter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702061457.11490.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>



Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
>   
>> Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the
>>> "linux" link, then cd inside
>>> and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from
>>> modules, I do a uname -a
>>> and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then check in the /boot
>>> directory, and the links are correct,
>>> then I check my grub.conf and it's correct, I then tried
>>> gentoo-sources-2.6.20, still the same thing.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any ideas?
>>>
>>> Gabriel
>>>       
>> There is some more info, if I do :
>>
>> grep -r 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 linux
>>
>> I get :
>>
>> linux/include/linux/autoconf.h:#define CONFIG_UNAME_RELEASE
>> "2.6.19-gentoo-r4"
>> linux/include/config/auto.conf:CONFIG_UNAME_RELEASE="2.6.19-gentoo-r4
>> "
>>
>> but my linux symlink is from the 2.6.20 kernel, not 2.6.19-r4.... :
>>
>> ls -la
>> total 3
>> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  176 Feb  6 11:29 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root  496 Jan 31 20:42 ..
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    0 Aug  3  2006 .keep
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   19 Feb  6 11:29 linux ->
>> linux-2.6.20-gentoo drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1296 Feb  6 09:44
>> linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r4 drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1328 Feb  6 11:45
>> linux-2.6.20-gentoo
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gabriel
>>     
>
> did you do a make menuconfig from scratch, or did you copy an 
> old .config over from a prior release?
>
> It looks like the latter may have happened and your .config does not 
> agree with what is actually in the source tree.
>
> Either that or you have a 2.6.19-r4 source tree thaqt is named 2.6.20
>
> alan
>
>
>   
Thanks for your reply Alan,

I copied over my .config and did a "make oldconfig"
then I had to choose the new options.

Gabriel
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-06 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-06 13:07 [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 Gabriel Rossetti
2007-02-06 12:25 ` Ric de France
2007-02-06 13:41   ` Gabriel Rossetti
2007-02-06 13:20     ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-06 13:37       ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-02-06 14:07         ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-02-06 15:16       ` Gabriel Rossetti
2007-02-06 13:31 ` Gabriel Rossetti
2007-02-06 12:57   ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-06 14:24     ` Gabriel Rossetti [this message]
2007-02-06 13:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
2007-02-06 15:20   ` [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED Gabriel Rossetti
2007-02-06 15:37     ` Gabriel Rossetti
2007-02-07  4:23       ` nick
2007-02-06 20:00     ` D. Bolliger
2007-02-06 20:13     ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-06 22:47       ` Ric de France
2007-02-07  1:08         ` Daniel da Veiga
2007-02-07  7:02           ` Alan McKinnon

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