Re: change kernel name

[Nicholas Berry]

Note the words 'after the compilation'.

Nik


>>> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 02/04/04 07:38AM
>>>
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Gaspar Bakos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have the following question:
> If I compile the kernel (2.4.*) and boot it in, then the
kernel-release,
> as shown by 'uname -r' will be the string that was in the
EXTRAVERSION
> string from the kernel Makefile.
> Is there any way to change this 'identity' of the kernel after the
> compilation?
> Such as
> changekernelname bzImage "newname"

Put anything you want in the structure, system_utsname, in your copy
of
linux-nn-nn/init/version.c.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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