Re: info on System.map

From: George Anzinger (george@pioneer.net)
Date: Tue May 16 2000 - 21:07:52 EST


Lech Szychowski wrote:
>
> > v_kernel=`cat /proc/cmdline|cut -d"=" -f2|cut -d" " -f1`
> > ln -sf /boot/$v_kernel.map /boot/System.map
>
> That's not correct. It depends on LILO label being the same as
> UTS_RELEASE. If you want to do this this way (using ln -s at
> boot time) use "uname -r".
>
> 22:19 [lech(p0)$/home/lech7] cat /proc/cmdline
> BOOT_IMAGE=99-p9-1-cz28 ro root=805
>
> 22:19 [lech(p0)$/home/lech7] uname -r
> 2.3.99-pre9-1-cz28
>
> 22:19 [lech(p0)$/home/lech7] grep "Loaded.*symbols" /var/log/kern.LOG | tail -1
> May 16 17:55:23 lech kernel: Loaded 14468 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.3.99-pre9-1-cz28.
>
> --
> Leszek.
>
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> -- speaking just for myself...
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I add this to my uname -r:
`sed -e 's/.*#\([0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/' /proc/version`
This picks out the build number which the master make bumps each time
the system is made. Notice I have made provisions for it to go past 9.

George

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