Re: Kernel 2.0.8 displaying as 2.0.0

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From: Graham Daveney
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 00:00

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Graham Daveney (daveney@speednet.com.au) wrote:
: Hi Guys,
: 
:    I have this funny problem.
:    I have been slowly migrating over to using kernel 2.0.8, upgrading the
: packages such as PPP, procps-1.01 and all the others.
:    Kernel compiles and boots fine. The interesting thing is that when it shows
: the login prompt and when I do a dmesg the kernel version there shows as 2.0.0.
:    Interesting. I checked the file version.h in the
:    /usr/src/linux/include/linux directory and it says there 
: 
:    #define UTS_RELEASE "2.0.8"
: 

Silly me !!

Thanks to the guys who emailed me with what to do.

I ran lilo and now the kernel shows 2.0.8 as it should.

This new kernel really seems to run much better.


Thanks
Graham
daveney@speednet.com.au

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From: daveney@speednet.com.au (Graham Daveney)
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.0.8 displaying as 2.0.0
Date: 1996/07/29
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