You have to copy the kernel as well into boot. make install does this. I think it is
somewhere in the arch subtree. (I'm not at my linux box at the moment.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hey...
>
> i just upgraded the kernel on a RH5.2 machine to 2.2.14 and went through the
>following steps:
>
> make config
> make dep
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make modules_install
> cp System.map /boot
>
> i then edited lilo.conf to look like this:
>
> boot=/dev/sda
> map=/boot/System.map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/bzImage
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda1
> read-only
>
> when i run top or ps as root, i get "Warning: /boot/System.map not parseable as a
>System.map". i thought the problem might have been an old buggy procps, so i
>installed the latest one and it does the same thing.
>
> i searched the siglinux archives and saw that someone suggested running "make
>install" to correct the problem. i did that and then everything worked.
>
> what does 'make install' do that the above steps didn't? also, that old email said
>that you needed to 'make install' on redhat systems specifically. is that correct?
>that seems like it would be something independant of distribution. is there
>something big i am not understanding here?
>
> tia!
>
> --
> Jacob
>
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>
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