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From: Andre Tomt <lkml@tomt.net>
To: "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net>
Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lilo and system maps?
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 19:09:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1070561388.15415.233.camel@slurv.pasop.tomt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031204175311.GF16568@rdlg.net>

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:53, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> I'm messing around on one of my dev machines which has 4 possible
> kernels installed.  2.4, 2.4-stable, 2.6, 2.6-stable (stable is the last
> known good kernel).  I currently have my System.map files laid out as:
> 
> /boot/System.map-2.6.0-test11-bk2
> /boot/System.map-2.6.0-test10-bk4
> etc.
^^^

> This way when I install a new kernel I can copy the System.map to
> /boot/System.map-2.6 instead of keeping up with all the version numbers?
> lilo doesn't seem to like the map= arguements.  Does the kernel need the
> System.map in a single place, can it figure out where it's at for a
> multiple config?

Just stick with the System.map-$(uname -r) variant and it will just work
automaticly. map= in lilo is not for System.map's.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-04 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-04 17:53 lilo and system maps? Robert L. Harris
2003-12-04 18:09 ` Andre Tomt [this message]
2003-12-04 18:15   ` Robert L. Harris
2003-12-04 18:41     ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-12-04 18:45       ` Robert L. Harris
2003-12-04 18:25 ` Maciej Zenczykowski

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