On Jun 24, 2004, Emmanuel Seyman <seyman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:40:54PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> >> But it actually solves another problem. How do you tell otherwise >> which kernel arch you've booted into? > uname -m AFAIK uname -m prints the machine hardware name. What if I'm running the i586 kernel on an i686 machine? Or the i686 kernel on an athlon box (back when they were different kernels)? What if I booted the i686 kernel, and then rpm -U --replacepkgs to the i586 kernel? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}