All, Here is a response I got regarding the kernel version information! Figured I would forward it onto the list incase anyone else was watching for the reply! Joseph Hobbs Compaq Web Services / GEAE Team Backup Team Lead Tier II/III Web Support Joseph.Hobbs@ae.ge.com hobbsj@somecrazyfool.com -----Original Message----- From: dog@intop.net [mailto:dog@intop.net] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 4:56 PM To: Joseph Hobbs Subject: Re: [SLE] Kernel Compilation and "uname -r" the name for the kernel comes from the top of the Makefile in /usr/src/linux look at the first few lines in there and you will see something like VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 9 EXTRAVERSION = if you want uname -r to return the 2.4.9-4GB-SMP put -4GB-SMP after the extraversion and go through the make bzImage, make modules, etc again. in short, this is not necessary, you could change those numbers to anything you wanted. On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Joseph Hobbs wrote:
Hey all,
I have been trying to recompile my kernel to add netfilter support, but I am confused. I have tried this with the 2.4.0 kernel that comes with SuSE 7.1 Professional, and also with the 2.4.9 kernel I pulled from www.kernel.org.
When I run a "uname -r" on my box right now (running the kernel that SuSE built), I get back the following:
2.4.0-64GB-SMP
When I recompile the kernel, I choose the 4GB option for memory support, and SMP (its a dual CPU box). I also went through and trimmed out all of the crap I didn't think was required... I wanted to go with the 2.4.9 kernel, so I'll elaborate on that one.
The machine boots fine. modprobe complains a few times because I didn't compile in sound card support (it was killing the compile, so I figured I'd deal with it later), but the box came up great. However, when I run a "uname -r" it returns the following:
2.4.9
If I run a top on the box, both CPU's are present and being used. I don't understand. I would have expected the "uname -r" to return "2.4.9-4GB-SMP". Is there a place I am supposed to specify this, or should it be automatic?
Thanks for any information!
Joseph Hobbs Compaq Web Services / GEAE Team Backup Team Lead Tier II/III Web Support Joseph.Hobbs@ae.ge.com hobbsj@somecrazyfool.com
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