On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:50, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya > > vmlinux is an uncompressed kernel > ( erase these.... seems to occupy space ) > > vmlinuz is a compressed vmlinux > ( say, suitable to fit onto a floppy for booting off of it ) > > initrd is typically used for temporarily booting the hw into > a state, that the real kernel vmlinuz can than take over and > continue the booting.. > - example... you can't read the kernel off the scsi hard disk > until you have a scsi driver loaded in the kernel .. > ( answer... boot an initrd kernel that can read the real kernel > > - my basic understanding.. and used initrd to fix my scsi > booting problems > > just makes sure your have the same "version" for vmlinuz-version and > System.map-version or you might get whacky error messages > > c ya > alvin How is the System.map-?? produced? Tia Bob > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Q. Gong wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Under /boot, there are three files, such as vmlinuz-version, > > vmlinux-version, and initrd-version.img. What's the differences between > > them? Can initrd-version.img be used for both vmlinuz and vmlinux? Thanks > > a lot in advance. > > > > Qian
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