On Monday 20 September 2004 01:32, Brian Mury wrote: >On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 20:38, Gene Heskett wrote: >> If you are using a script to do the build, (I highly recommend it >> as it helps to prevent the "oh, damn, I forgot" mistakes) and have >> the version number as a $VAR in that, and use it in the scripts >> operations, then the only other thing you need to do is make sure >> that your Makefile also has the exact same version coded into its >> Extra_Version and you should be fine. Then all you have to do is >> edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf to use the new name you've >> assigned. I do it here all the time. > >Hmmmm... that's exactly what I'm doing, but it doesn't work. No big >deal, I just left it as 2.6.8.1 and it works fine. Are you using an initrd? I don't, I use /lib/modules/$VERSION, but IIRC either also has to carry that same version in its internal modules. For /lib/modules/$VERSION, that dirname must also match. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
