Hi, I've never received an answer for these question in the Redhat reflectors, and never asked here. Please excuse my ignorance on this subject.
I just did a kernel build of gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 by hand (make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install & then copy bzImage to /boot by hand) and I do not get the System.map, config and vmlinuz files in /boot. However, I apparently did a build of 2.4.20-r5 some other way (possibly make install?) and these files, plus their links were created. QUESTION 1: What do these files do, and are they necessary? QUESTION 2: What is the process to create these files if I want them? QUESTION 3: What is the difference between booting from a vmlinuz file and a bzImage file? QUESTION 4: Does having these -r5 files impact running -r7 if the -r7 versions don't exist and the links point to the -r5 versions? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
