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Re. Total Confusion



Thanks to Steve Kowalik, who wrote the following, the problem if not the solution is becoming clear.

On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:35:35PM -0700, Sidney Brooks uttered:
> I ran depmod -a as root and got:
> Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep for writing.
>
> Again the number seems to indicate my kernel version is 2.2.14, which it
> shouldn't be. However, I do not know enough about kernels to be sure.
>
Errrr, that's a RedHat kernel version. The words "What have you done" spring
to mind. I'd double check your lilo config and make sure you're running a
_Debian_ kernel.
(The depmod error means you don't have any modules for that kernel version
installed, if you were wondering)
--
Steve

I have Windows on partition hda1, Redhat on hda6, and Debian on hda8. Because of what Steve wrote, I did uname -a for Redhat and got 2.2.14-5.0. It seems that when I install Debian, it grabs the Redhat kernel instead of installing its own. The only link is that I am using the same swap partiton for both.

Now what?



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