Install vanilla kernel

John Wendel john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Wed Aug 16 20:40:40 UTC 2006


Jay Cliburn wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:12:25AM -0700, John Wendel wrote:
>> Easy recipe follows
>>

[SNIP]

> 
> Perfect!  You filled in my knowledge gap with [6].  Thank you very much.
> 
> So are the symsets...tar.gz, symvers...gz, and config...fc6 files in /boot
> *needed* by Red Hat/Fedora kernels?
> 


I think (?) there are some debug tools that use the files. I know they 
aren't used by the running kernel (unless you're debugging). They 
aren't in my /boot directory and things work just fine.

Regards,

John




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