On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:25:40 -0800, walt wrote:

> The most common reason for this (in gentoo) seems to be that the user
> is not running the kernel he thought he was running.
>
> The reason usually is that his /boot partition is not mounted when
> installing the newly compiled kernel, so the new kernel goes into
> the /boot directory of the root partition by mistake. The result
> is the old kernel is booted next time around.

been there.
done that.

;-)

Oli