"der.hans" wrote:
>
> Am 29. Jul, 2001 schwäzte John (EBo) David so:
>
> > really? On the suse distro /usr/src/linux is a symbolic link to
> > something like /usr/src/linux-2.4.0-64GB-SMP. and that does change with
> > every version of the kernel. Am I missing something here?
>
> That's how most do it. I've seen commentary from Linus claiming it that to
> be stupid. Maybe he's changed his mind.
What does he suggest doing instead? particularily if you have 3 or 4
different kernals being maintained on a development system?
This actually brings up a rather odd problem I had a while ago (which I
solved by booting from a floppy no less ;-)
The 2.2.* kernals installed the modueal list and dependancies in in such
a way that I had them stepping on each others toes. The problem, IIRC,
surounded around defining a single shared /boot partition and several
/root partitions (one for each distribution). The problem was when I
had suse 6.4 and 7.0/7.1 walk all over each others module "map"
definitions. Is there some sane way to tell the kernal to boot with a
different map? Say /boot/map.2.4.0-64GB-SMP?
OH WAIT!!! I JUST RTF(Lilo)M AND THEY HAVE A "-m map-file" SWITCH...
arrrgggg.... you would not believe how much time I wasted earlier this
year on this one... sheesh!
EBo --
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