diff --git a/userspace/marsadm b/userspace/marsadm
index 668ab692..6b1cea46 100755
--- a/userspace/marsadm
+++ b/userspace/marsadm
@@ -2587,7 +2587,7 @@ sub get_global_versions {
   unless (defined($ARGV[0]) && $ARGV[0] =~ m/cluster|cat/) {
     my $act_dir = "$mars/actual-$host";
     mkdir($act_dir) unless -d $act_dir;
-    $kernel_version = get_alive_link("tree", $host, 1);
+    $kernel_version = get_alive_link("tree", $host, 2);
     if ($kernel_version && $user_version != $kernel_version) {
       lwarn "kernel_version=$kernel_version user_version=$user_version\n";
       if ($user_version < $kernel_version) {