On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:34:20 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > People, > > How do I know if the kernel I'm running is the i586 or i686 version? > uname -m is not useful in this case, because it shows me the machine > architecture (which I know is i686), not the architecture for which the > running kernel was compiled. It always shows i686, even if the running kernel > is i586. > > Thanks, > > Marcelo How about: rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` provided you have used rpm to install kernel.