Re: [gentoo-user] linux symlink?

[Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx>]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 12:39:07 -0500
Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net> wrote:

> On Sunday 04 February 2007 08:51:44 am Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> > On Sunday 4 February 2007 13:45, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> > > I was under the impression that it is necessary to install Nvidia
> > > drivers. Is this correct?
> >
> > If the link is not in place, nvidia-drivers will not build.
> >
> > > And what should be done with the System.map file? Copy it to /boot
> > > under which name? (I mean, when booting with a particular kernel,
> > > how does the kernel know the path to the correct System.map?)
> >
> > There used to be a good system.map explanation here:
> >
> > http://dirac.org/linux/system.map/
> >
> > however, it seems to have some problem at the moment. The google
> > cached copy works (just do a search for linux system.map, it's the
> > first hit).
> >
> > Sorry, cannot comment on whether the symlink should or should not be
> > created, and it's been a lot since I built my last LFS. I have
> > almost always used it, and never had any problem. IIRC the
> > handbook's advice is to create the link. But, as always, YMMV.
> 
> The server ar dirac.org need a kick, I emailed the admin there. As
> for the symlink with LFS... LFS is a totally different animal than
> most distributions. For us, the link is required in order to emerge
> anything that touches the kernel sources.
> 
I stopped copying System.map very often and it doesn't seem very
useful.. I  think copying it to /boot is mostly for recovery purposes,
like .config being copied into /boot.  that way you can rebuild the
kernel if you need to.  
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