* Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4
@ 2007-02-06 14:24 99% ` Gabriel Rossetti
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From: Gabriel Rossetti @ 2007-02-06 14:24 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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