Re: [Sheflug] SuSE 7.1 and kernel 2.4.4

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, French, Alastair wrote:

> 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).

It's purely a distro issue. RedHat has always had map files in /boot.

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

map=/boot/map in lilo.conf

It's not crucial anyway, the map is only used to decode kernel oopses, and
TBH I can't remember the last time I had an oops.

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

RedHat has it in the cunningly named package mkinitrd. :)

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