what should uname -v be telling me here?

[Lowell Gilbert]

paul beard <paulbeard at gmail.com> writes:

> I noticed that uname -a isn't returning what I expect so I deleted and
> re-pulled a source tree from svn, removed obj, and after a few
> iterations of rebuilding kernels and removing anything I can think of
> to resolve this, I'm at a loss.

You're clearly not booting from the same kernel that shows up as
/boot/kernel/kernel, so it sounds as though you're booting from 
a different partition than whatever is showing up as /boot/kernel 
once the system is up.

Look at your disk partitioning. Also, make sure that you aren't 
mounting something on top of /boot in your /etc/fstab.