Re: system.map

From: Marcel J.E. Mol (marcel@mesa.nl)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 18:38:02 EST


On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:23:53PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Keith Owens writes:
>
> > System.map is not required for booting, it is only used after init
> > starts, therefore it does not belong in /boot anyway.
>
> It's not about modules either. :-) If you can ignore the
> name, I can too. So "/boot" means "kernel stuff".
 
So I moved /lib/modules in /boot and symlinked /lib/modules -> /boot/modules.
Everything about kernels is then in /boot (partition). This allow me
to share /boot over all the distros I installed and enjoy one kernel
compilation on all distros...

-Marcel

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