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 1N4NYw-0005uo-Gx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:40:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68E8FE0B1E; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47729E0B1E for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D94C366BBC for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:40:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.156 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.156 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.557, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Dgeyflrcypco for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177C265ACB for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:40:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N4NYg-00069u-1k for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:40:34 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-184-177.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.184.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:40:34 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-184-177.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:40:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrading and linux symlink Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:40:10 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87hbtfo68r.fsf@newsguy.com> <4AECAB89.6020909@gmail.com> <200911010020.57136.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0910311629j5e289aa6ua87837515d859d19@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-184-177.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091031 Shredder/3.1a1pre In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0910311629j5e289aa6ua87837515d859d19@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 60efa59c-9a96-4be3-801d-915a1e728733 X-Archives-Hash: 34e25de69aaddcc3b7e8996c64ea6edf On 10/31/2009 04:29 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... They're needed if you are trying to debug kernel crashes, but AFAIK not needed for anything else.