location of new Sytem.map,bzImage

[tejpratap]

hi friends!
in many tutorials on 'kernel compilation' i find it specifically mentioned that

copy arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/ directory
copy System.map to /boot/System.map-VERSION

but , in order to keep the newly configured and compiled kernel separate from the original kernel , i am putting

arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/mykernel/ directory
System.map to /boot/mykernel/ directory
initrd.img to /boot/mykernel/ directory

and then i am modifying the grub.conf file accordingly. it is booting properly. is it correct to keep System.map file in /boot/mykernel/ directory
or while booting the system , it takes the System.map file from /boot directory and not from the /boot/mykernel/ directory because i have found that even if i remove the System.map file from /boot/mykernel/ directory the system boots. How it works?

needed your valuable idea on this. i am using linux 2.6.9-1.667
tej

[markkuk]

You should use the "make install" command to install the kernel to /boot instead of manually copying files.
The system.map file isn't needed at all for booting, it's used for logging and debugging.

[brahms]

Originally Posted by tejpratap

but , in order to keep the newly configured and compiled kernel separate from the original kernel

This is the point of the VERSION part of the file name.