where does uname get its info from ...etc

[john gennard <joney@clara.co.uk>]

I got an unofficial snapshot .iso for Sarge, burned it to a CD
and installed from the CD. The installaton was very basic, and
I've been gradually and laboriously building it up by hand -
this has been very educational and has taught me a great deal.

Now as I was considering recompiling the kernel to my own
requirements, I find the following:-

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a. 'uname -a' shows:-

Linux Leary..co.uk 2.4.21 #2 Tue Aug 26 14:43:43 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux

b. an extract from '/boot' shows:-

 518609 Sep  5 19:25 System.map-2.4.22-1-386
    512 Oct 28 20:33 boot.0340
  42220 Sep  5 11:54 config-2.4.22-1-386
3383296 Oct 28 20:32 initrd.img-2.4.22-1-386
 825011 Sep  5 19:25 vmlinuz-2.4.22-1-386

c. messages when booting include:-

Sun Nov  9 15:46:05 2003: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file 
/lib/modules/2.4.21/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
Sun Nov  9 15:46:06 2003: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file 
/lib/modules/2.4.21/modules.dep (No such file or directory)

d. '/lib/modules' is:-

drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Oct 28 20:32 2.4.22-1-386
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5883 Oct 28 20:32 modprobe.conf

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The kernel I selected for install was 2.4.22-1, so why does uname
think it is 2.4.21? And, why is modprobe looking for modules for
2.4.21?

I have done nothing to bring the above about - and didn't notice 
it before as I was concerned with other matters. Can anyone
offer an explanation please.

Regards,       John.