Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3513 mails)

[Avi Schwartz <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a wild guess (probably wrong).  It might be looking for a 
System.map-version where version is what you get with uname -r.

Avi

--On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 22:45:52 -0600 Jerry Kreps 
<jerrykreps@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been recompiling my 2.2.18 kernel several times
> during the last couple of days in order to get my IDE
> PleXWriter 8423Ti to burn a CD.  That's another story
> that's is not sucessful yet.
>
> However, after each kernel compile I'd copy the bzImage
> and the System.map to /boot and refire lilo.
> While searching the logs for msgs about the PleXWriter
> under ide-scsi emulation I noticed that during booting
> System.map-2.2.18 was always being loaded despite
> my copying System.map from /usr/src/linux after each
> compile.
>
> I've noticed that lilo.conf doesn't contain any mention
> of the system.map.  So, how does one tell the kernel
> which System.map to use, especially if two different
> kernels create two different System.maps???
>
> JLK
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