Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:07:58 -0600 | From | Nicholas Harring <> | Subject | Re: system.map |
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Timothy Covell wrote:
>On Wednesday 02 January 2002 13:39, Tony Hoyle wrote: > >>Timothy Covell 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. >>> >>???? Just call it System.map-2.2.17, System.map-2.5.1, etc. Sounds >>pretty 'easy' to me. >> >>'make install' does all this for you, btw. >> >>Tony >> > >Not on grub. I quote: > It is also possible to do "make install" if you have lilo > installed to suit the kernel makefiles, > but you may want to check your particular lilo setup first. > >But, on my grub based system, I have to: > >1. "make bzlilo" which creates vmlinuz and System.map >and puts them in / and not in /boot. (make bzlilo is easier to use >than bzimage) > >2. cp /vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-x.y.x ; cp /System.map /boot/System.map-x.y.z > >3. rm /boot/System.map ; ln -s /boot/System.map-x.y.z /boot/System.map > >4. vi /boot/grub.conf (or /etc/grub.conf) and put in new kernel boot entry. > >5. sync;sync;shutdown -r now > > If you export INSTALL_PATH=/boot then the copying and removing and relinking will be unnecessary.
Nick Harring Webley Systems, Inc.
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