On Thursday 24 January 2002 11:21, you wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:10:03AM -0500, Ken Siersma wrote:
> ....
>
> > But, when it finishes,
> > the login prompt tells me:
> > Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)
> > Kernel 2.4.12 on an alpha
> > Huh?
>
> You should not so readily believe in everything what is written. :-)
>
> What you are seeing here is a content of your /etc/issue file and you
> may really put there whatever pleases you. "Kernel 2.6.3 on PDP-11"
> would be nice.:-) Some versions of /etc/issue (not the current ones
> which have other bogosity) had a content hardwired and it was changing
> when you were installing, via rpm, a new kernel rpm package.
>
> What 'uname -r', and 'uname -a', have really to say? Also 'dmesg'
> output and what is in /var/log/message is quite a bit more authoritative
> than /etc/issue even if you can play games with later as well.
>
> Michal
>
>

good point. I knew that of course....

dmesg tells me:
        Linux version 2.4.12 (roothurricane.ekk.org) (gcc version 3.0) #6 Mon Jan 7
        10:00:41 EST 2002
        Booting on Tsunami variation DP264 using machine vector DP264 from SRM
        Command line: root=/dev/sda4
        ...

Thanks,
Ken

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