Warning: /boot/System.map

[dogbert at clue4all.net (Brian Conway)]

I always did so until I booted a previous kernel with the newer System.map
and it work perfectly without errors.  Perhaps I just got lucky there.  Any
ideas?

Brian Conway
dogbert at clue4all.net

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
                -- Henry Spencer


----- Original Message -----
From: <TWG3 at world.std.com>
To: Subba Rao <subb3 at ibm.net>; Brian Conway <dogbert at clue4all.net>
Cc: <discuss at Blu.Org>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: Warning: /boot/System.map


> I prefer to have the /boot/System.map be a link to /boot/system.map-2.xxxx
> where 2.xxx is the version of the kernel you have currently running.  Also
take your old system.map and nameit to system.map/2.xxxold.  that way if the
new version creates any problems, you can revert back easily by changing the
target of the links.
>
> this is also preferred for /boot/vmlinuz(x) to be a link to
/boot/vmlinuz-2xxx
>
> Tom Guilderson
> TWG3 at world.std.com
>


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