On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:06, Brett I.Holcomb wrote: > You haven't made a mistake.
Brett & Collins. You say mistake. I say 'mistake'. I did understand, especially after Lindsay's explanation about the 'convention' being to change the name, that it's just a 'mistake' and not a mistake. ;-) But thanks for the extra > > What happens is a kernel build creates bzImage in the /usr/src/linux > directory tree. Then the docs tell you to copy it to /boot. I copy and > rename it because I like vmlinuz. The name makes no difference. As far as > Gentoo goes - at least the last builds I did - the kernel wasn't copied but > if it is feel free to rename it. However, I don't mount /boot until I'm > ready to copy to it. Actually, this is one very nice feature of Gentoo vs. Redhat. In Redhat /boot was always mounted, so if I made a mistake and ran 'make install' I could overwrite an existing kernel. I like having to mount /boot by hand when I'm ready to copy it, just like you. > > When the kernel is built the System.map file is also built. If you want copy > it to /boot too. It provides symbols for debuggin. I've run with a > System.map that was built several kernel builds ago - however, I don't do > debugging <G> Got it. Thanks. As Collins pointed out, and I checked it to be true, System.map is created and is in /usr/src/linux after my build, so that is answered. If I would have bothered to edit the config file in /boot I would have figured out that is is the .config file used when I built the kernel. I suppose again that 'make install' copies it over. I could do that by hand also. So, actually, thanks very much for helping clear up a few small mysteries for me today. I've been building kernels off and on for a while, but since moving my home studio main desktop machine, first from Win XP and then from Redhat, to Gentoo I've gotten more attuned to build code much more often. Under Redhat I built very little code. Gentoo is a different experience. Thanks much, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
