Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2700 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
> Hi,
> Can anyone tell me how this might have happened? - see listing below and 
> note that uname -r returns one version of linux and /usr/src/linux is 
> linked to a different version.
uname -r returns the kernel you are currently running which may not be 
the same as where /usr/src/linux is pointing. /usr/src/linux is 
surperfluous in 2.6 anyway.
> I only noticed this after I tried to:
>
>                                make clean ; make linux26
>
> for  zaptel which is part of asterisk.
First you need the kernel sources installed.
cd /usr/src/<kernel-source-directory>
make prepare-all
make cloneconfig
make && make modules_install
I make a habit of not touching my working kernel as it's easy to reboot 
on it if the new kernel fails or I mess it up. In the kernel Makefile, I 
change to something like EXTRAVERSION=-21.7a and copy the bzImage to 
/boot/2.6.11.4-21.7a, put in a line for the new kernel in 
/boot/grub/menu.lst, run mkinitrd and reboot on the new kernel.

Regards
Sid.
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