From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: G Anna Subject: Setting EXTRAVERSION (was Re: Kernel error) Date: 28 May 2002 21:14:00 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <20020527165031.GA2875@cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20020527165031.GA2875@cam.ac.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org > Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 17:50:31 +0100 > From: Steven Smith > Subj: Re: Kernel error (snip) > My suggestion would be to compile a new kernel, and set > EXTRAVERSION. If the new kernel is version 2.4.5, then put > the System.map in /boot/System.map-2.4.5. I installed RH 7.1. It came with 2.4.2-2 kernel. I then upgraded the kernel to 2.4.16. While compiling the new 2.4.16 kernel I didn't not set the EXTRAVERSION in /usr/src/linux/Makefile. Will this cause any problem in the future? What is the significance of this EXTRAVERSION? Can I choose any value for this variable? Also, should this value always start with -, by convention? $ ls /lib/modules 2.4.16 2.4.2-2 $ uname -a Linux wobble 2.4.16 #8 Tue May 14 14:15:58 IST 2002 i686 unknown Thank you all for your time. Cheers, anna -- (16) I will never utter the sentence "But before I kill you, there's just one thing I want to know." - Peter Anspach in "The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord" http://www.eviloverlord.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs