Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

[Bo Andresen <bo.andresen@gmail.com>]

On Monday 13 February 2006 00:28, Holly Bostick wrote:
> 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.

http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&q=system.map&btnI

This is getting a bit off topic, however, what you can read from the above 
link is that there are programs which use System.map to resolve symbols from 
the kernel. It just lists the addresses of where in the memory symbols are 
located. But Grub certainly isn't one of those programs and unless you use 
one of those programs it really isn't necessary.

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Bo Andresen
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