Hi Mark, I'm, not an expert with this, but I'll try... Am Montag, 15. September 2003 18:57 schrieb Mark Knecht: > 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.
I think, there is a make bzlilo. Maybe you used this one? > QUESTION 1: What do these files do, and are they necessary? Afaik system.map is created and needed by your bootmanager (lilo?). vmlinuz is your kernel or a symlink to it. I dont know what config could be. I don't have this file and my machine boots quite good. I use grub now, but I had lilo installed before. > QUESTION 2: What is the process to create these files if I want them? vmlinuz is created by you, when you copy your kernel after compiling with cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz. Maybe make bzlilo does that for you, I never used this. System.map is created by your bootloader, when you install it (call /sbin/lilo, setup in grup?). > QUESTION 3: What is the difference between booting from a vmlinuz file and > a bzImage file? There is none. It's just the name of your kernelimage. > 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? No, if you have a section in the configfile of your bootloader, that starts the -r7 kernel. Don't forget to call /sbin/lilo, if you use lilo (/boot mounted). After that there should be a System.map. > Thanks, > Mark Hand Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
