-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tony Alfrey shocked and awed us all by speaking: > Hi! > > I'm trying to clean up my understanding of the kernel compiling process. > (for reference, still running Caldera and LILO) > I'm trying to understand the purpose of the map file. I have a file > System.map in my kernel source directory that I think is > created/updated when I compile my kernel. I assume that it is supposed > to go in /boot. And O'Reilly "Running Linux" says that lilo should > include a line > map = /boot/map > but I don't have this line. > So what gives? > a) What is creating the file ~/kernel-build-directory/System.map?
compiling the kernel creates it > b) Is it called when I boot if LILO is not told where it is? has nothing to do with lilo. different maps... > c) Do I need it? not strictly. IIRC, the map file is used to convert a (s)trace or kernel dump from fairly meaningless machine-specific hex values to kernel symbols and such. make the dump "more usefull" > > Thanks! de nada - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 http://doug.hunley.homeip.net && http://www.linux-sxs.org panic("kmem_cache_init(): Offsets are wrong - I've been messed with!"); -- 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/mm/slab.c -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/IVqU2MO5UukaubkRAvvjAJ43YIVWT3GCtT2pz2wvQGWOIlEdrwCgl7ZG +mbeLCMtoaXeLe3W9OkGqDg= =ir7n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
