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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Kernel Update Goes Funny

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 13:16, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:30:23AM -0400, Barry McLarnon wrote:
> > Recently, I did a security update via the YOU updater that took the
> > kernel version from 2.6.13-15.10-smp to 2.6.13-15.11-smp.  When I
> > rebooted, however, none of my modules loaded.  The boot log showed
> > that the kernel was looking in /lib/modules/2.6.13-15.10-smp/, which
> > no longer exists.  Also, uname reports that the kernel version is
> > still 2.6.13-15.10-smp, but vmlinuz and other files in /boot are all
> > appear to be updated to 2.6.13-15.11.
>
> It sounds like the update didn't run 'lilo' after upgrading the
> kernel... assuming LILO is your bootloader.  If your bootloader is
> GRUB, then I can't explain it.

I remember that one from days gone by, but I am indeed using GRUB.

Barry

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Barry McLarnon  VE3JF  Ottawa, ON

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