AUTOINSTALL not set..

John Wirt j.wirt.112 at comcast.net
Wed May 31 20:53:14 UTC 2006


Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 16:40 -0400, John Wirt wrote:
>   
>> In booting, this message appears in the boot sequence:
>>
>>
>>     aic79xx (2.0.8) AUTOINSTALL not set in its dkms.conf
>>
>>
>> "aic79xx" is the name of the (Adaptec) SCSI host adapter driver.
>>
>> Some configuration file is apparently missing or is not correct. 
>> Can/should I fix this? Linux apparently runs fine and I have detected no 
>> file read/saving problems.
>>     
>
> That has to do with building kernel modules that aren't part of the
> standard driver set (e.g. the spca5xx module for some web cameras).
> Don't worry about it.
>
>   
>> I have 3 SCSI drives in my system but two of them are configured into a 
>> RAID 1 configuration that boots to XP. The third drive is separate and 
>> boots to Redhat Enterprise v.3. The boot manager is BOOTIT-NG.  This 
>> works fine.
>>     
>
> I'd expect so.
>
>   
>> Apparently, dkms is,
>>
>>   "*dkms* is a framework which allows kernel modules to be dynamically 
>> built for each kernel on your system in a simplified and organized fashion."
>>     
>
> Right.  However, the aic79xx driver is part of the standard driver set
> and you don't need dkms to manage it for you.
>
>   
>> The Linux installation I am running was originally configured to run two 
>> of the SCSI drives but I reconfigured it to run one of the drives by 
>> editing fstab, as I recall.
>>
>> John Wirt
>>
>> FSTAB:
>> LABEL=/            /                 ext3    defaults 1 1
>> LABEL=/boot        /boot             ext3    defaults 1 2
>> none               /dev/pts          devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>> #LABEL=/mnt/disk2  /mnt/disk2        ext3    defaults 1 2 
>> none               /proc             proc    defaults 0 0
>> none               /dev/shm          tmpfs   defaults 0 0
>> /dev/sdc6          swap              swap    defaults 0 0   
>> /dev/cdrom         /mnt/cdrom        udf,iso9660  noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>> /dev/fd0           /mnt/floppy       auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 
>> /dev/cdrom1        /mnt/cdrom1       udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>>     
>
> The only issues I have with that arrangement (and they're purely
> personal) are:
>
> 1. I hate using filesystem labels.  They can bite you if you add another
> drive to the machine with data on it.
>   
So, I can just remove the LABEL=/... commands and replace them with "none?"
> 2. Everything is on / except boot.  I much prefer to have separate
> partitions for /, /usr, /home and /var--ideally on lvm so they can be
> grown if needed.
>
>   
Can one reconfigure these directories without running a risk of 
confusing some configuration file somewhere?

John
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