Mattias Merilai wrote: > I have tried both on different (but only) gentoo kernels and > still they complain about not finding it.
That will happen when when your /boot is on a separate partition: it is not mounted (yet) when the kernel is looking for the System.map. > 1. Is this a vanilla or gentoo kernel specific issue? Neither. If you don't want it to complain, then copy the System.map also to /boot when it is unmounted (or to /, that will do too). > 2. Does the kernel itself actually need the file? No. Only when it oopses it will use the info to give a clearer message. > 3. Are programs like ps able to find the file themselves as they > seem to work? Does ps need System.map? But if /boot is mounted during normal operation, then it'll be able to find it. Maybe these programs are even 'cleverer' and also have a look in /usr/src/linux/? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
