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uname -a i?86
Posted by Christoph Kukulies on December 8th, 2003


What does it mean when I get a i?86 in uname -a. It seems that
rpmbuild fails on this because it says there were no support
for architecture i?86. (linux kernel 2.2.17)


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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de

Posted by Doug Laidlaw on December 9th, 2003


Christoph Kukulies wrote:

It sounds as though uname -a can't identify your system architecture for
some reason. I get:

Linux dougshost.mydomain.org.au 2.4.21-0.13mdk #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST
2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Doug.
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Posted by Christoph Kukulies on December 10th, 2003


Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@myaccess.com.au> wrote:
I upgraded to 2.2.25 and the CPU architecture is recognized now correctly.

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de

Posted by Lew Pitcher on December 10th, 2003


Christoph Kukulies wrote:

I'm not sure that a move from kernel 2.4.21 to kernel 2.2.25 can be
considered to be an "upgrade", but I guess you have to use what ever works.

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Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)


Posted by Christoph Kukulies on December 12th, 2003


Lew Pitcher <Lew.Pitcher@td.com> wrote:
You may have missed that I was using a 2.2.17 kernel, so moving to
2.2.25 *is* an upgrade. :-)


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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de