Subject: Re: 2.2.11 system.map
From: Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org)
Date: Sun Aug 15 1999 - 07:15:22 PDT
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, David Webb wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is may well be a rank newbie question.
> I'm in the process of trying to upgrade from 2.2.5 to
> 2.2.11. After make menuconfig, make dep, make clean,
> make boot, make modules, make modules_install, and
> moving the new kernel to the /boot directory, does the
> system.map get updated somehow, or do I need to
> manually move, or copy, the new system.map form
> /usr/src/linux to /boot?
The clean usually comes before the dep.
Yes, you need to copy it manually. Though you can copy it as
System.map-2.2.11 and the kernel is smart enough to find the right one.
> I ask because when I try to boot the new kernel, I get
> console messages of module dependency problems, no
> vfat support in the kernel (vfat support is definetly
> checked in make menuconfig) followed by many messages
> that say: "boot/system.map has an incorrect kernel
> version", and then the boot hangs a little after that.
> The system.map currently in /boot is the previous one,
> so I presume that's the problem, but I've not seen any
> mention of manually moving system.map in the docs I've
> read. Can anyone point me in the direction of a
> websit, HOWTO, etc. that discusses this?
> Thanks in advance.
You may want to run through a make config and make sure all the options
you thought were there are really there. Also look in /lib/modules and
check there's a directory for 2.2.11 with all the modules you think should
be there.
--rdp
Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org
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