Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

[Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Douglas J. Hunley" wrote:
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> On Saturday 09 June 2001 08:41, James "Jim" Hatridge babbled:
> > Hi all....
> >
> > I've got 3 kernels on my system, "A B C". I want to start different
> > programs running according to which kernel I boot. What I whould like to
> > happen is in boot.local (or where-ever) it say "if kernal A run X, if
> > kernel B run Y". Is there anyway to do this?
> >
> > BTW I'm running SuSE 7.1......
> >
> > TIA!
> 
> use 'uname -v' and not 'uname -a' . it will return 2.2.19 or 2.4.5 or
> whatever. a lot easier to parse.
> For example, in my rc.local:
> if [ "`uname -v|cut -d\. -f2`" -gt 2 ]
>         # do 2.4.x stuff
> else
>         # do 2.2.x stuff
> fi
> 
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What if all the kernels are 2.4.4 just different?? Don't know if thats
the case but if
it is then the first suggestion might work but again the # would change
after any rebuild
of it. There are extra version stuff in the TOP makefile of the kernel
you could then
use that to differenciate  between the kernels. Just a thought because
I've had to do
something simalar.

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Mark Hounschell
dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx