Curious about the purpose of system.map and kconfig in /boot

jftaylor21 · 2005-11-05 17:45:05

I have been curious about what exactly does system.map and kconfig do in the /boot directory? How do I know what to name them for my system to use them. I can tell grub what bzImage is called and where it is stored, but it does not seem like I am supposed to tell anything about where system.map and kconfig are stored?

Thanks for the help and knowledge!

paranoos · 2005-11-05 18:05:38

well, kconfig is the kernel configuration file ... basically it tells you what options your kernel was compiled with, and what modules were made. grub doesn't need this file, it's there for your convenience.

i'm not too sure about system.map, but somebody else knows.

smoon · 2005-11-05 18:05:42

The kconfig files are just the .config files with which the appropriate kernel image has been compiled. The file kconfig26, for example, belongs to the image vmlinuz26 in my /boot directory. It's just a simple textfile telling the kernel's build-system how to build the kernel and it's modules. Those files are just there for reference and are not required in this place.

I didn't knew much about the System.map and just asked Google: http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:zkn … inux&hl=de

jftaylor21 · 2005-11-05 18:16:20

Hmm... So it looks like you really don't need kconfig or system.map in your boot directory. Thanks for the info!

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Curious about the purpose of system.map and kconfig in /boot

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