On 2/13/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Jolet schreef: > > > >> Ummm... isn't there supposed to be a system.map for the kernel as > >> well? > >> > >> I myself don't manually copy my kernels after compiling it; I use > >> make install to do so, and I have the following files in /boot for > >> all my kernels: > > I've never done anything with a system.map. I manually copy it > > myself to allow me to name them whatever I want. > > > > > Well, that's my point, sort of... what exactly do you copy, and has that > file been copied to Gilberto's /boot folder? From my /boot listing > previously, you can see that even SUSE creates a system.map in the /boot > folder, and that's a precompiled kernel (so it's not like it's copying > manually or via make install). So I kinda suspect that it's a needed > file across all distros, whatever it may be called.... and, looking in > /usr/src/linux, it is a separate file from the bzImage file, which is > the actual compiled kernel. The fact that the make install command also > finds it necessary to copy this file from /usr/src/linux to /boot is not > to be sneezed at either, imo. > > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > OT?? AFAIK system.map is not needed for lilo and not for grub. I don't have it and all works without any errors or warnings about it.
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