how to determine kernel version
Bevan C. Bennett
bevan at fulcrummicro.com
Wed Feb 25 22:30:26 UTC 2004
Christopher Ness wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 15:14, Ed Gurski wrote:
>
>>RPM="`rpm -qa|grep kernel-2|sort`" # Show all installed
>>kernels on this system
>
>
> Your comment isn't quite right... You'll naturally only pick up the
> kernels that `rpm` knows about. Oh and only the 2.X series by your
> grep, but who has a 1.X series kernel running these days?
It also won't pick up the -smp kernels, which many people -are- running.
Other possibilities include:
ls /lib/modules
ls /boot/vmlinuz*
cat /etc/grub.conf (configured kernels only)
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