[Sheflug] SuSE 7.1 and kernel 2.4.4

["French, Alastair" <nospam [at] racalinst.co.uk>]

Hi All

I have just installed SuSE 7.1 with kernel 2.4.0 on my laptop and am in the
process of upgrading the kernel to 2.4.4. I notice that the System.map
concept seems to have changed in kernel 2.4 (from 2.2).

Am I correct in assuming that you no longer need a System.map in /, but
muliple versions in /boot. From the default install these seem to link to
the boot image names but not entirley.

For example the default install of SuSE was these boot images

vmlinuz (kernel 2.2.18)
vmlinuz_24 (kernel 2.4.0)
vmlinuz.suse (kernel 2.4.0 SuSE specific)

the only system maps are 

System.map-2.2.18
System.map-2.4.0-GB

These correspond to directories under /lib/modules i.e.

/lib/modules/2.2.18/
/lib/modules/2.4.0-GB/

How do I let lilo (or the kernel) know which system map to use.

Also the default install uses ramdisk images in lilo. I cannot find mkinitrd
anywhere. Which package is it in.

Cheers

Alastair



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