On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, John Archbold wrote:
Hi all,
I was poking around my linux system and found this at the top of boot.msg in /var/log
Inspecting /boot/System.map Symbol table has incorrect version number
It doesn't seem to be harming the system just wondering what the hell it is!
When you make bzImage a new System.map file is put into /usr/src/linux. It as well as the kernel needs to be copied into /boot. Well, I say "need", I only figured this out last week and I've been rolling my own kernels for months! I think it's for debugging information if/when you ever see a kernel panic. As I've never seen one of those... -- Rachel -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>