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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 16:04:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210701160438.61954148@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a865d037-19f5-9d06-9d54-04ca073e9801@gmail.com>

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On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 09:41:27 -0500, Dale wrote:

> > grub-mkconfig only reads the files, it is the make install step of
> > kernel installation that takes care of copying the files to /boot
> > with the correct version numbers. ISTR Dale prefers to copy the
> > kernel files manually, which is why his System.map is not versioned.

> I do copy mine manually.  It's how it was done when I first started
> using Gentoo and I just stuck with it, it works.  It's just one
> additional file.  Thing is, I may read up on the script way of doing
> things.  It may help make dracut and grub-mkconfig happy.  Sometimes I
> have to fiddle with names to get them both happy.  I suspect the script
> tools handle that with ease. 

make install names the files in a way that dracut and grub-mkconfig
recognise. Just run make install after make modules install. You've let
the makefile copy all the other files, you may as well let it handle the
final two :)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-01 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-01  6:59 [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage? Dale
2021-07-01  7:22 ` William Kenworthy
2021-07-01 11:16 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2021-07-01 12:41   ` tastytea
2021-07-01 13:01     ` Dale
2021-07-01 14:28   ` Neil Bothwick
2021-07-01 14:41     ` Dale
2021-07-01 15:04       ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2021-07-01 15:14         ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2021-07-01 15:47           ` Hayley
2021-07-01 15:13       ` [gentoo-user] " antlists
2021-07-01 15:13     ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2021-07-02 23:07 ` Daniel Frey
2021-07-02 23:54   ` Dale
2021-07-03  9:11     ` J. Roeleveld

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