Messages in this thread | | | From | Timothy Covell <> | Subject | Re: system.map | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:13:55 -0600 |
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On Wednesday 02 January 2002 14:54, Keith Owens wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:26:29 -0600, > > Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org> wrote: > > Of course, you can copy over the new System.map > >file to /boot, but their is no (easy) way of having more than > >one active version via "lilo" or "grub". And that could be > >considered a deficiency of the Linux OS. > > Current versions of ps look for System.map in > > $PS_SYSTEM_MAP > /boot/System.map-`uname -r` > /boot/System.map > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/System.map > /usr/src/linux/System.map > /System.map > > Copy System.map to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/System.map after make > modules_install, remove any old map files from /boot and / and you > don't need any symlink or bootloader tricks.
I saw that in the man page for "ps". I think that your idea makes sense.
However, I'm concerned about searching in "/usr/src/linux" for it. Linus has taken great pains to point out that we shouldn't be building our kernels in /usr/src/linux, it would seem that this is reenforcing a mistake.
> > The 2.5 kernel build asks if you want to install System.map and > .config. If you say yes then the default location for these files in > 2.5 is /lib/modules/`uname -r`/{System.map,.config}.
I knew that I was trying to download the 2.5.x series for a good reason. ;-) My bandwidth hasn't let me get one full download yet, but I've got all the 2.4.x patches that I could need.
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