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[NathanTwist]

hey guys. its wierd, a while back i updated from 2.2.16-22 to 2.4.17, and everythign was successful. but today i was just bombing around in teh boot directory, and this is what i found:
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total 3977
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 26 14:48 System.map -> System.map-2.2.16-22
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 481809 Jan 26 14:45 System.map-2.2.16-22
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jan 25 21:29 boot.0300
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5824 Aug 23 2000 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Aug 23 2000 chain.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 25 21:10 kernel.h -> kernel.h-2.2.16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 405 Jan 26 06:37 kernel.h-2.2.16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 25 2000 kernel.h-2.4.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jan 25 20:57 lost+found
-rw------- 1 root root 27648 Jan 26 15:45 map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23108 Aug 23 2000 message
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 25 21:08 module-info -> module-info-2.2.16-22
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11773 Aug 22 2000 module-info-2.2.16-22
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 Aug 23 2000 os2_d.b
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1621492 Aug 22 2000 vmlinux-2.2.16-22
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jan 25 21:08 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 952866 Jan 26 14:45 vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 905081 Jan 26 14:44 vmlinuz.old
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this is wierd, it looks like everything is still pointing to 2.2.16 ! uname -r shows me that im running 2.4.17, same with getty. any ideas as to whats going on? did i forget to do something? thanks guys

[slapNUT]

Jan 26 14:45 vmlinuz-2.2.16-22

Thats probably your 2.4.17 kernel because of the date.

Look in /usr/src/linux-2.4.17/arch/i386/boot and see if bzImage has the same size and date. Then if so you can rename the one in /boot if you like. And change the symlink /boot/vmlinuz to point to it and rerun lilo.

Make sure you have a section in your lilo.conf that points to the original kernel in case of problems you can still boot off 2.2.16


Also I think you should check the size and dates of /usr/src/linux-2.4.17/System.map. It looks like they are named wrong in /boot also. You could change that to if you like then change the symlinks also.

[ 30 January 2002: Message edited by: slapNUT ]