Followup to: <20000727223737.2722.qmail@t1.ctrl-c.liu.se>
By author: wingel@t1.ctrl-c.liu.se
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> In article <200007272122.RAA04791@tsx-prime.MIT.EDU> tytso@MIT.EDU wrote:
> >That certainly makes a lot of sense; I've alwyas thought it was a bit
> >odd that some stuff was in /lib/modules and Systemp.map and bzImage are
> >stored in /boot. My guess is this is because Linus doesn't use modules,
> >so he doesn't see this particular aesthetic fault. :-)
>
> There is one very good reason for putting the bzImage in /boot,
> older BIOS:es have trouble with cylinders >1024 so I've almost
> always but /boot on its own partition below 1024 cylinders and
> have made it as small as possible, so even putting System.map
> there is a mistake really, so I'd rather se System.map in
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`.
>
bzImage needs to be in /boot. System.map and vmlinux does *NOT* need
to be in /boot. Recent modutils support storing them in
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel.
-hpa
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