In article <martin.705882149@menaik> martin@cs.UAlberta.CA (Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences) writes:
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>I use shoelace to boot from my hard disk, and have the Image file in
>the /etc directory.  But I see from the shoelace "config" file that one
>might instead have the separate system parts - kernel, mm, fs, init -
>in /etc/system.  When I boot my system, it looks there first, can't 
>find kernel, and then loads the Image.  My question to the *Real Linux
>Hackers*: do you simply use the Image file, as I have done, or do you
>make the separate parts?  And if the latter, how?  I confess, I'm
>a rank beginner when it comes to compiling the system. So far, I have
>learned to type "make", and now even "make clean", "make dep", and 
>"make Image", then watch the messages fly bye.  :)  
>
>Tim.

Shoelace won't do this for Linux - it comes from the original
Minix version that will link the kernel on the fly, so
we all just load the Image file at bootup.

Another thing : you might want to make the Image file 
/vmunix or /linux or whatever instead, it's more
normal.