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From: David Golden <david.golden@oceanfree.net>
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Subject: Re: How can one get System.map w/o vmlinux?
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:34:46 +0000
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I've often thought that an alternate scheme would be vaguely
"neater", just have a  boot directory with per-version subdirectories,
and a single symlink "current" to the  one you want to use.
I've never particularly had an urge to try to use one kernel version's
System.map and possibly initrd.img with another version :-)

No doubt there's a reason for not doing it this way, it's
probably been done to death years ago on lkml,
and personally, I don't find the current minor symlink tangle
much harder, but I only seem have 3 or so kernels in /boot at any one time -
I can imagine that having lots of kernels, system.maps and initrds all
in one directory would get tiresome with the current way, but would
be relatively painless like this:

/boot/2.2.20/vmlinuz
/boot/2.2.20/System.map
/boot/2.2.20/initrd.img
/boot/2.4.17/vmlinuz
/boot/2.4.17/System.map
/boot/2.4.17/initrd.img
...
ln -s /boot/2.4.17/  /boot/current
ln -s /boot/2.2.20/  /boot/old
etc.


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