Re: RH6.0 Kernel Compile Problems

[Agustin Navarro <anavarro vip eniac com>]

On Wed, 12 May 1999, Philippe Moutarlier wrote:

> Graham Hemmings <gh-work netcomuk co uk> writes:
> 
> > Well I had read about modprobe and had figured out what goes on in
> > rc.sysinit with respect to uname -r.  However, this is the crux of the
> > problem as the stock kernel returns 2.2.5-15 to uname -r,  as does my shiny
> > new SMP kernel, which means that the clever stuff that goes on in
> > rc.sysinit is of no use as it is still unable to distinguish between the
> > two kernels.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Graham...
> >
> 
> Well, I think you should get the source directly (no rpm) and then recompile. This is 
> what I did. This "-15" at the end is kind of weird too. I don't think there shoud be 2 different kind
> of 2.2.5 kernel release in any case.
> 
> For me uname -r says "2.5.5" 
> 
> Philippe
>  

If you want to change the version of the kernel, you need change at the top
of /usr/src/linux/Makefile you will have to change the EXTRAVERSION= line.

Now it should be:

EXTRAVERSION= -15

You can put something like

EXTRAVERSION= -gh1

HTH

regards, Agustin

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