[H-GEN] slight problem

[Robert Brockway]

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Stephen Brine <sbrine at powerup.com.au> wrote:
: [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and
: Unix-related topics. ]

: Okie did that but still no change

: in looking at the actual fault as it whizzes by seems to be in /boot/system.map

Look at dmesg to see a copy of the bootup kernel output.  Your logs should
have later stuff.

: okie currently there is a link system.map -> system.map-2.2.5-15 now there 
: is a file in the boot dir rightly called system.map-2.2.5-15
: first off I said I Can't find it but I did and I have cped it in the boot 
: dir and created the symbolic link and it looks sweet on boot with the new 
: kernel

system.map isnt a particularly useful file really - it maps various codes
used internally in the kernel to symbolic names.  A kernel can run fine
without one.

Here's how I compile a Linux kernel.  It differs a bit from the way you
were doing things:

make xconfig dep clean bzImage modules modules_install

Instead of make xconfig, you can do a make menuconfig or even a make
oldconfig to upgrade from a previous version without modifying existing
options (you are prompted for new options).

make dep and clean and independent and are fine in either order.

make mrproper resets the kernel defaults and is really only used if you
think something is amiss with the compile.

I normally keep a copy of the configs for various boxes as hostname.config
and cp it to .config as appropriate.

I hope this helps.
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
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