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 1F8RA4-0003Hb-80 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:01:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1CNxBeW003150; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:59:11 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1CNgNsG013111 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:42:23 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so722515wri for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:42:23 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ru1UYiUjPLJfUbQN6bh2sf6JtHXgAcbgSa0JlA67QAtlcx6F+tMPiLmP6JpUK/4jX6mV3dZ9LBRwxr84ZtO89EcEvheP0NDD05hXQPGFyHMMj0fruBLGtV5bGLyXaDV3WJ15mHnp7mFHMuhgGJ+MkU/eTpkm6WUpfwD5h5BTA8k= Received: by 10.54.71.3 with SMTP id t3mr1649590wra; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:42:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.99.5 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:42:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:42:22 +0100 From: CapSel To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo 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-Disposition: inline References: <43EFC48B.90207@planet.nl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1CNgNsG013111 X-Archives-Salt: 778579f6-b57a-4499-be83-912ad3024688 X-Archives-Hash: 528ab932cdb8065253b9690626da9d5a On 2/13/06, Holly Bostick wrote: > John Jolet schreef: > > > >> Ummm... isn't there supposed to be a system.map for the kernel as > >> well? > >> > >> I myself don't manually copy my kernels after compiling it; I use > >> make install to do so, and I have the following files in /boot for > >> all my kernels: > > I've never done anything with a system.map. I manually copy it > > myself to allow me to name them whatever I want. > > > > > Well, that's my point, sort of... what exactly do you copy, and has that > file been copied to Gilberto's /boot folder? 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. > > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > OT?? AFAIK system.map is not needed for lilo and not for grub. I don't have it and all works without any errors or warnings about it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list