On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> I did move the kernel, I used bzImage named it /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12,
> made a new initrd with /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.12.img 2.2.12, added
> it to lilo (keeping my old one 2.2.9-27mdk), ran /sbin/lilo, it added them
> fine. I did not move the system.map file though. What does it do? can I
> name it something different and add that to the line in lilo soI can keep
> my system.map for 2.2.9-27mdk or will the new one work for both? I read the
> kernel how-to and it did not say anything about system.map that I remember
> though the one I have is a little old it talks about 2.0 being new.
>
I think you have to make a "backup" of the old system.map
if you don't want to overwrite it. As for initrd, I don't
use it here.... maybe that's the problem??? I don't
know.... neither my stock redhat-6.0 system here at work,
nor my hand-compiled kernel at home use initrd.
John
