On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:50:21PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > > Actually, I did use this since quite a while, but then, there is at > least one situation, when it doesn't (can't) work: If I compile the > same kernel with different options (for instance to test tuning > options), calling them, say 2.2.18a and 2.2.18b, it will not read > normally The Right System.map file. It's a pitty, that this is not > taken from the kernel's name (vmlinux-2.2.18a). But of course this > isn't even possible since the kernel is loaded much earlier than any > file system...
i assume you mean just compiling two different versions of plain 2.2.18, your correct you will have a collision on the System.map-2.2.18 files, but more importantly you will have a collision of /lib/modules/2.2.18. there is a very simple solution to this, edit the kernel top level Makefile and add a value to EXTRAVERSION. then your uname -r output will be say 2.2.18-1 and your System.map and modules will be named appropriately. and everything still finds it fine. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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