Mikkell/List:

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On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 13:06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Terence Golightly wrote:
> > List,
> > 
> > I just got done upgrading to a new kernel and cleaning up my lilo.conf
> > of older kernel and src versions, when I noticed:
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ ls -l /boot
> > total 6276
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root     512 Feb  7 14:58 boot.0300
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root     512 Jan 19 12:42 boot.1600
> > 
> > What are the above two?
> > 
> If I remember correctly, they are boot record save files.  Not real 
> usefull unless you want to uninstall lilo.
> 
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      30 Jul 17 11:54 config ->
> > config-2.6.3-15mdk-i686-up-4GB
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   56579 Jun 18 02:07
> > config-2.6.3-14mdk-i686-up-4GB
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   56580 Jul  2 22:50
> > config-2.6.3-15mdk-i686-up-4GB
> > 
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root    5032 Feb 19 12:03 diag1.img
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   16796 Feb 19 12:03 diag2.img
> > 
> > What are those two above?
> > 
> They are part of the lilo package.  Used for debugging?
> 
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 May  2 11:03 grub/
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  247691 Jul 17 11:47
> > initrd-2.6.3-14mdk-i686-up-4GB.img
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  147590 Jul 17 11:19
> > initrd-2.6.3-15mdk-i686-up-4GB.img
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      34 Jul 17 11:19 initrd.img ->
> > initrd-2.6.3-15mdk-i686-up-4GB.img
> > 
> > 
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      38 Jul 17 11:27 kernel.h
> > ->/boot/kernel.h-2.6.3-14mdk-i686-up-4GB -rw-r--r--  1 root root     537
> > Jun 27 12:38 kernel.h-2.6.3-14mdk-i686-up-4GB
> > 
> > Is this a problem?  I still have installed the 14 kernel src as well as
> > the newer 15 kernel src and the file /usr/src/linux is slinked to the
> > newer kernt which will be the new default.
> > 
> This link is changed to reflect the kernel you booted with.  It should 
> always point to the currently running kernel .h file.

So if I reboot to the new kernel, the system will automatically update
the kernel.h file? Sorry about the long span between replies, I got
caught up in installing games :).


Terry



Terry Golightly ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Pittsburgh, Pa 
Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel
2.6.3-14mdk-i686-up-4GB 
20:07:54 up 24 days, 7:11, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.13, 0.07 

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