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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 00:38:02 +0100
From: "Marcel J.E. Mol" <marcel@mesa.nl>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>, timothy.covell@ashavan.org,
        adrian kok <adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: system.map
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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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