That's amazing, and that's what I am telling my wife as I read (with her) all this messages, and show her how important is that we support Free Software. The need of knowing more, by teaching the "newbies". Thanks for all interest of each one who helped.
Maarten: "If you have no hda, or if hda is the CDrom, it may be prudent to change the cabling so that linux is on the /dev/hda device. Altough it is possible to boot from the slave drive, but it is more straightforward to boot from the master, and you may save yourself some headaches." Yes, I have a CDROM as /dev/hda, and I really thought it would bring me some troubles. Of course I can change it. But, I know (as you also said) it is possible to boot from a slave hard disk. I haven't tested, but it is like a poor solution, for I wouldn't be learning. I honestly am almost considering going back to LILO and try after, but that would not be learning. Holly Bostick: "Ummm... isn't there supposed to be a system.map for the kernel as well?" Yes, I think. Should I hen modificate grub config file, as in LILO ? if yes, how and where to make this change ? In addition, there is a very good article about the topic "system.map" in http://www.dirac.org/linux/system.map/. Mostly for debugging. also, the command "ps" make some use of it. I copied the following: # cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-gentoo-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 PS.: thanks for this valuable €0.02 !! 8) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
