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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