[lug] System.map issue

Chris Riddoch socket at peakpeak.com
Sat Feb 23 13:04:08 MST 2002


"D. Stimits" <stimits at idcomm.com> writes:
> > This is the significant part of what's in my lilo.conf:
> > map=/boot/System.map
> 
> BINGO. "map" is NOT System.map, it is part of the chain loader. In fact
> System.map should not be listed in lilo.conf at all. System.map is
> accessed by programs directly or via kernel programming, it is never
> hard coded into the boot sector. In your /boot/ should be a file
> literally called "map". Try this instead:
> map=/boot/map
> 
> One is a map for the boot loader, another is a symbol map for module
> symbol exports. Very very different.

Doh. 'tis fixed now. I guess I should read the comments in lilo.conf a
little more carefully...

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