From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N4NcR-0006Dw-EH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:44:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A744BE0B77; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:43:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.120]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA3EE0B77 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:43:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from basement.kutulu.org ([97.103.123.104]) by cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20091031234330205.SDOO4372@cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com> for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:43:30 +0000 Received: by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id BF4047D8401; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:43:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5-gr0 (2008-06-10) on basement X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.2.5-gr0 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.69.4]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCF57D80A0 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:43:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4AECCBA0.3060508@kutulu.org> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:43:28 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090915 Thunderbird/3.0b4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrading and linux symlink References: <87hbtfo68r.fsf@newsguy.com> <4AECAB89.6020909@gmail.com> <200911010020.57136.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0910311629j5e289aa6ua87837515d859d19@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0910311629j5e289aa6ua87837515d859d19@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 92848b1b-2bff-4f7a-b410-57302e0b61b0 X-Archives-Hash: 3e249e6b36f0f5203d3ec1a3644a13fe On 10/31/2009 7:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > So I think this thread addresses a question I've had about the kernel > installation process over the years. I only copy bzImage to /boot with > a rename to whatever this kernel is. I don't do anything with the > other files - System.map and something else - which I don't even have > on most of my systems anymore. They don't seem to be needed. Are they > just things used in the old days but now too outdated or replaced by > other stuff? (Like config.gz in the kernel, etc.) Having a copy of the config file is useful, for me anyway, when I have multiple types of kernel (one without PaX, one without SELinux, whatever) and a new version comes out, I can copy its config from /boot to .config and run make oldconfig. The System.map file is probably the least useful of the three for the average user. It's main use is for address resolution in oops messages. I think ps uses it for something as well. --Mike