Re: [Sheflug] SuSE 7.1 and kernel 2.4.4

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:02:29AM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> 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.
> 

procps uses System.map as well. Although it doesn't really make a
difference for most people.

A.D.

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