AUTOINSTALL not set..
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Tue May 30 17:57:15 UTC 2006
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.
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.
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