Re: LILO - System.map conflict

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@mindspring.com>]

	Subject: LILO - System.map conflict
	Date: Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 10:55:08AM -0500

In reply to:Fethi A. Okyar

Quoting Fethi A. Okyar(afo@or219a.e1.iit.edu):
> 
> I admit that I am crating a lot of trouble myself, just
> poking in things and compiling new kernels, but thats the
> beauty of it, and as long as there's this kind of support,
> it really helped me well. Ok, I had some problems during
> installing a new kernel, and here's the symptoms::
> 
> I compiled a kernel, fine, compiled the modules and installed
> them, everything worked fine (especially after I stripped my 
> system off 64 MB of RAM that I used to have which I guess was
> not working well with the remanining 64 MB's)
> 
> Now I moved the new kernel to /boot as bzImage.x.y.z and I also
> moved the new System.map to /boot/map.x.y.z. I edited my 
> /etc/lilo.conf file so that it has the entries such as
> 
> ...
> boot=/boot/map.x.y.z
> ...
> linux=/boot/bzImagex.y.z
> ...
> 
> but what happens each time I run lilo is, it (lil0) destroys the 
> new System.map file I just moved there, by replacing it by a much
> smaller file, from where it gets this file I have no idea.
> 
> If I reboot with this new configuration that lilo likes, things
> seem to be working ok, but then what is the point of having a new
> System.map file, and where is it used or not used?
> 
> So the question is:
> Is the map file that is mentioned in lilo.conf not the same file
> as the Syetm.map file, and am I supposed to place the System.map 
> file in a special location without lilo's knowledge?
> 
> Thanks for any help and suggestions..
> 

I have 4 different kernels, for Slink, in my lilo.conf, as well as 3
for Slackware, 2 for hamm and 3 for Potato.  Same system 2 harddrives.
I make a new kernel, copy the zImage/bzImage to /boot (on all 4
distributions) as whatever the kernel is, ie slink2.2.3, potato2.2.5,
Slack2.2.6, etc.  I have never copied/moved or otherwise done anything
with the system.map file. All distributions have the same lilo.conf
file, so that I can run lilo from any of them.

I find the discussion about the system.map file interesting as I have
no problem with new kernels on any of the distributions.  I wonder why?


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Wayne T. Topa <wtopa@mindspring.com>