Version Info Wrong?

Alstare · 10-06-2006, 09:38 AM

I ugraded my kernerl to 2.6.18 this morning an upon reboot I noticed the Version info is incorrect? (Welcome to Linux 2.4.33.3) instead of (Welcome to Linux 2.6.18) I was expecting.

Clearly this isn't a big problem, but just something I noticed, and I recall in the past on previous experiences that has changed when I upgraded kernels.

Any info on this? Do I need to manual change this?

Also I followed the 2.6.x kernel upgrade post from the top of this forum for the recompile.

Thanks -Brian

Alstare · 10-06-2006, 09:41 AM

Also a thing of note...

/etc/rc.d/rc.modules still is linked to rc.modules-2.4.33.3

As per defualt 11.0 install

There is no rc.modules-2.6.18 listed in there to redirect to. Is there something else I am supposed to do that was not listed in the tutorial to redirect this to the new modules?

Thanks
-Brian

slackamp · 10-06-2006, 09:56 AM

check to see if the upgrade changed /etc/lilo.conf to boot to the new kernel. if not then you will need to change it then run /sbin/lilo and reboot. as for the rc.modules, i think it is skipped once the system detects that you are running the new kernel. also make sure that you install the kernel-modules package that came with 2.6.18

Alstare · 10-06-2006, 10:22 AM

Hrmmm

Reviewing the suggested lilo.conf and what the recompile has done it seems it renames the old kernel to vmlinuz.old, yet it is setup to search for vmlinuz.old for startup of the new kernel.

I will try switching it back to search for vmlinuz for startup which should bring up the new kernel, and solve that issue.

How do I go about installing the new modules packaged? That is something I have never done before or even heard about.

Thanks
-Brian

slackamp · 10-07-2006, 06:14 PM

the modules for kernel 2.6 should be in the testing/packages/linux-2.6.18/ folder (not sure which cd it is). this will only work if you use the package from slackware. if you compile your own kernel then the modules should have been installed assuming you have done a "make modules_install".