* Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4
@ 2007-02-06 15:16 99% ` Gabriel Rossetti
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From: Gabriel Rossetti @ 2007-02-06 15:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
>
>> Ric de France wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Gabriel,
>>>
>>> On 07/02/07, Gabriel Rossetti <rossettigab@charter.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>> It sounds like you're doing the right thing. Could you do a:
>>>
>>> $ ls -al /boot
>>> $ cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
>>> $ ls -al /usr/src
>>>
>>> and then post the outputs to this list?
>>>
>>> ...Ric
>>>
>> Hi Ric,
>>
>> yes, here is what you asked for :
>>
>
> [snip listings]
>
>
>> PS
>> I have not changed my way of compiling / installing the kernel for at
>> least 4 years (since switching to 2.6 kernel series)
>>
>
> Well, everything there looks just fine and how it should be, and you do
> appear to know exactly how to compile kernels.
>
> It looks to me like you slipped up just this once and have a PEBKAC or a
> made a little typo - it happens :-)
>
> If you run 'strings' on /boot/vmlinuz, is that really a 2.6.20 image?
> Did you verify that /usr/src/linux-2.6.20 really does contain a 2.6.20
> tree by examining the actual files?
>
> alan
>
>
here's the output of "strings"
strings /boot/vmlinuz | grep 2.6
2.6.20-gentoo (root@delta9) #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 6 14:09:46 UTC 2007
I didn't check the kernel tree against my files because I'm not really
sure how to do that :-)
Gabriel
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