Re: Re. Total Confusion
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:20:06PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
> Nick wrote:
>
> [snip]
> >I have the2.2.r3 version of Debian. The full kernel description is
> >2.0.38-2.0.38-3.
> Can't comment on any of your other issues at the moment, but your
> kernel version *can't* be right - I'm running Debian 2.2r2 which came
> with kernel 2.2.18pre?, and which I've recently updated to 2.2.19 ...
>
> I got these numbers from the kernel image module on the installation disk.
> After reviewing this note, I went back to the disk and found other kernel
> versions on it, including the two that Nick gives above.
>
> At this point, I do not know which is actually installed. I tried the
> command kernelversion and got the response 2.2, which is no help.
>
> Using dmesg, I get linux version 2.2.14-5.0 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com).
> I do not know if this is the kernel version installed or not. I guess that
> I must ask how one finds the full kernel version.
>
The listing in the first line of dmesg is the version installed.
'uname -a' should also give the version information. Make sure that
/etc/lilo.conf points to the correct image and run lilo to install a
different one.
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