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Re: Bult kernel, but still running old one.



Which bootloader are you using ? (lilo, grub ?)  And whats the config ?
Check the config .. maybe kernel is set directly there and not via
/vmlinuz symlink.

nullman


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:20:07 +0100, Dr. David Kirkby
<drkirkby@medphys.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> I wanted to build a new kernel, since some firewall software needed a
> later one than supplied with 3.0r2. I downloaded the 2.4.19 source,
> built the kernel, and installed it, which created /boot/bzImage.
> 
> I suspect I may have gone wrote here, but I then created a link from
> /boot/bzImage to /vmlinuz
> 
> Now when I boot, it still is booting the old kernel, although I can't
> see what is making it do this. As far as I am aware, it is booting the
> /vmlinuz, which is linked to the new kernel.



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