From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F8RUw-0003uq-QU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:23:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1D0LSoj005931; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:21:28 GMT Received: from cicero0.cybercity.dk (cicero0.cybercity.dk [212.242.40.52]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1D0Gscu001668 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:16:54 GMT Received: from user2.cybercity.dk (user2.cybercity.dk [212.242.41.35]) by cicero0.cybercity.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D90D67803F for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:16:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.0.0.2] (port78.ds1-abs.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.227.17]) by user2.cybercity.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDAF1287600 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:16:53 +0100 (CET) From: Bo Andresen Organization: N/A To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:16:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <43EFC48B.90207@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <43EFC48B.90207@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602130116.51628.bo.andresen@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 302289e6-7e3f-4a56-8248-0602e42cdc12 X-Archives-Hash: 6b08a2d2872ce747b9e911fe8e2d2d3d 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. -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list