THIS IS INFO REGARDING KERNEL DATES
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livecd / # ls boot -l
total 1651
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       1 Sep  8 21:42 boot -> .
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    1024 Sep  9 12:28 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1668627 Sep 10 08:37 kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r7
drwx------ 2 root root   12288 Sep  8 21:40 lost+found
livecd / # ls -l /usr/src/linux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Sep  8 17:19 /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7
livecd / #
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THIS IS GRUB.CONF
=================  GNU nano 1.3.11                         File: boot/grub/grub.conf


# Which listing to boot as default. 0 is the first, 1 the second etc.
default 0
# How many seconds to wait before the default listing is booted.
timeout 30
# Nice, fat splash-image to spice things up :)
# Comment out if you don't have a graphics card installed
splashimage=(hd1,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r7
# Partition where the kernel image (or operating system) is located
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hdb4

# The next four lines are only if you dualboot with a Windows system.
# In this case, Windows is hosted on /dev/hda6.
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1