[Techtalk] Kernel compilation problem

[Dave North]

Jeanette:
> Well, I do have to do debugging, but I might just be moving System.map
> over out of habit. I've always wondered about the fact that the name you
> give it is completely irrelevant ....

It's not! If you simply copy System.map to the /boot directory, it will
(of course) overwrite the old one. However, if you use the same extension
as in the first few lines of the makefile (for example, 2.4.18-foo) as:
	cp System.map-2.4.19-foo /boot
...the kernel configured with that name will adopt that System.map!
	This is independent, by the way, of the name you assign to the
bzImage in the boot directory, at least when I checked.

> On the second matter, I need to rebuild initrd for boot support

How do I get away with these things? Hmm. For one thing, I never move an
initrd between distros or machines. Maybe that keeps me chugging
somehow...


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