From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: system.map
Date: 8 Mar 2002 16:21:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6bkil$a7j$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10236.1010007095@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> <WHITEAiPyTxQplr0tEj00000aaa@white.pocketinet.com>
Followup to: <WHITEAiPyTxQplr0tEj00000aaa@white.pocketinet.com>
By author: Nicholas Knight <nknight@pocketinet.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> For what reasons? I see no valid reason for it being the "Wrong" thing
> to do. I wouldn't even call it QUESTIONABLE. Nor is it simply a
> "holdover". There are still systems in use whos BIOS simply *does not
> support* booting past the 1024th cyl.
>
> 1. Putting stuff in /boot is generaly the "standard" thing to do,
> generaly won't cause confusion among experienced users, and will make
> sense to new users; /lib/modules/* will make no sense whatsoever.
>
Now, you're on a system on which /boot is actually a flash ROM (yes,
such systems exist) or for other reasons very small.
Gunk in /boot is not appreciated.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-09 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-02 19:11 system.map adrian kok
2002-01-02 19:26 ` system.map Timothy Covell
2002-01-02 19:39 ` system.map Tony Hoyle
2002-01-02 20:03 ` system.map Timothy Covell
2002-01-02 20:19 ` system.map Kilobug
2002-01-02 20:35 ` system.map Timothy Covell
2002-01-02 21:14 ` system.map Eric S. Johnson
2002-01-03 9:43 ` system.map Miquel van Smoorenburg
[not found] ` <02010312301401.01898@manta>
2002-01-03 10:59 ` Sync and reboot (was: Re: system.map) Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-01-03 11:17 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-02 20:25 ` system.map Tony Hoyle
2002-01-02 20:45 ` system.map Timothy Covell
2002-01-02 21:10 ` system.map Alan Cox
2002-01-02 23:07 ` system.map Nicholas Harring
2002-01-03 2:14 ` system.map Daniel Phillips
2002-01-03 15:54 ` system.map Albert D. Cahalan
2002-01-02 19:47 ` How can one get System.map w/o vmlinux? Timothy Covell
2002-01-02 20:34 ` David Golden
2002-01-02 22:00 ` Christian Koenig
2002-01-02 19:51 ` system.map Horst von Brand
2002-01-02 20:54 ` system.map Keith Owens
2002-01-02 21:13 ` system.map Timothy Covell
2002-01-02 23:01 ` system.map skidley
2002-01-02 23:14 ` system.map Timothy Covell
2002-01-02 21:17 ` system.map Albert D. Cahalan
2002-01-02 21:31 ` system.map Keith Owens
2002-01-02 22:09 ` system.map Nicholas Knight
2002-03-09 0:21 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-01-02 22:23 ` system.map Albert D. Cahalan
2002-01-02 23:38 ` system.map Marcel J.E. Mol
2002-01-02 19:30 ` system.map Sebastian Roth
2002-01-02 21:25 ` system.map Lionel Bouton
2002-01-02 22:15 ` system.map David Golden
2002-01-02 22:21 ` system.map Nick LeRoy
2002-01-02 22:29 ` system.map Lionel Bouton
[not found] <fa.ephh22v.1ljqarg@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.hmqrtsv.13jqup8@ifi.uio.no>
2002-01-02 21:14 ` system.map John Weber
2002-01-02 21:42 ` system.map Keith Owens
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2004-12-06 17:34 System.map Anoop T
2004-12-07 11:43 ` System.map Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-12 16:34 system.map vacant2005
2005-07-13 10:21 ` system.map Jan Engelhardt
[not found] ` <200507131244.08336.vacant2005@o2.pl>
2005-07-13 10:45 ` system.map Jacek Jabłoński
2005-07-13 10:56 ` system.map Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-13 11:04 ` system.map Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-13 11:27 ` system.map Russell King
2005-07-13 11:33 ` system.map Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-14 17:07 System.map Philip
2007-10-14 18:45 ` System.map Jan Engelhardt
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