Hi,

I'm currently fiddling with the packaged 2.6.10 kernel, and I have a few
questions about that.

1) I use mainly ReiserFS, except for my /boot partition which is ext2. Can I
safely omit the initrd if I compile ReiserFS directly into the kernel, or
is there something else I'd need?

2) What exactly does System.map do?

3) I have several kernels in /boot, and several according System.map files.
Question: when my /boot/grub/menu.lst stanza says
"kernel=/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.29", does this mean that automatically the
according System.map-ide-2.4.29 will be used (since it bears the same
appendice)? Or do I have to symlink each to vmlinuz resp. System.map?

4) I tried to recompile the stock 2.6.10 kernel, and the only alteration I
made was change the processor type from 486 to 586/6x86. I couldn't boot on
that new kernel, because there was an error about a wrong reiserfs module.
I *think* I should have repeated mkinitrd, but then... AFAIK, I should have
*two* initrd.gz files in /boot... one for the stock 2.6.10 kernel, and
another one for the recompiled one. Hence my question above, about how to
do without an initrd.

Niki Kovacs
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