[ale] hmm, some ?'s

[Gary Maltzen]

boot.b - second stage boot loader (the "LO" of "LILO")
boot.0302 - original /dev/hda2 partition boot sector
System.map - symbol table for vmlinuz
map - LILO database of where sectors are
chain.b - boot loader for C:
os2_d.b - boot loader for OS/2 from D:

You might want to add to your procedure:

cp ./System.map /boot/System.map-"kernelversion"

As has been pointed out, 'make clean' should suffice; you generally only use
'make mrproper' when you are going to archive the tree for distribution.

-----Original Message-----
 From: Tri <merlintm at bellsouth.net>


|I was wondering what these files do. I find them in my /boot directory:
|boot.b
|boot.0302
|System.map
|map
|chain.b
|os2_d.b
|
|also I recompile my kernel like this.
|make mrproper
|"Here I run xconfig and configure the kernel"
|make dep
|make zImage
|make modules
|make modules_install
|cp arch/i386/boot zImage /boot/vmlinuz-"kernelversion"
|"then I edit my lilo.conf"
|lilo
|reboot
|
|I've been using this procedure for a while and it has always worked, but
|since I'm not an expert I was wondering If i'm missing something. Of
|course this is just curiosity.