kernel architecture - how to find it out

[Graham Leggett]

Hi all,

I made the mistake of trying to install a kernel from FC1 into an RHEL3 
system (long story) - and in the process, the kernel from FC1 
uninstalled the existing kernels on the system (oops). I am now trying 
to reverse this process. I forced an uninstall the of the existing FC1 
kernel, and then did "up2date --force kernel".

This process downloaded both the i686 and the athlon kernels (the 
architecture is athlon), and then installed one of the kernels (it 
didn't say which one).

I then ran "up2date --force kernel-unsupported" to get the extra modules 
(I need reiserfs) which installed fine, but depmod started complaining 
about symbol mismatches.

Symbol mismatches make me suspect that the kernel installed by up2date 
is not the same kernel as the running kernel, even though the versions 
are exactly the same.

The only things that I can see that could be different are the 
architectures. If I use uname, it tells me that both i686 and athlon are 
present - so the running kernel is definitely athlon.

But rpm -q -i kernel does not tell me which architecture was installed.

Is there a way of getting this information out of RPM? Surely up2date 
should figure the architecture out automatically?

Regards,
Graham
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