three issues w/ my upgrade (fsck, modules, link)
Hello, Love this distro, just rearranged my hard drive and rebuilt a buncha stuff. Ideas or comments on these appreciated. 1) fsck during the boot sequence. I changed from a small root partition to several partitions. Now when the machine boots, it runs fsck on the former (and still) root partition, which passes, but the second time it runs fsck (shortly thereafter) it tries to run fsck on both the unmounted partitions *and* the root partition, then says fsck failed cuz the partition is mounted. I think my mtab and fstab are ok, but I'm not sure what's happening here. I thought there was an option in the secondary partition check that is supposed to make it skip over the root partition, but it doesn't appear to be. 2) When I install and build a kernel, should /usr/include/linux/include be a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include? cuz right now, it ain't. 3) I built all my soundblaster modules (soundlow, sound, uart401, sb) but how to make them load automagically? modules.conf says not to edit i'm not sure what to do. Seems like such a simple thing, but... Thanks, John ps: here are the mtab and fstab: (mtab) /dev/hda13 / ext2 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /usr ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr/local ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda8 /cdimage ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda9 /opt ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda11 /tmp ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda12 /var ext2 rw 0 0 (fstab) /dev/hda13 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda10 noneswap sw 0 0 proc/proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda5 /usrext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda7 /usr/local ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda8 /cdimageext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda9 /optext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda11 /tmpext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda12 /varext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda13 / ext2 defaults 0 2
Re: three issues w/ my upgrade (fsck, modules, link)
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 05:02:57AM -0700, John McBride wrote: 1) fsck during the boot sequence. I changed from a small root partition to several partitions. Now when the machine boots, it runs fsck on the former (and still) root partition, which passes, but the second time it runs fsck (shortly thereafter) it tries to run fsck on both the unmounted partitions *and* the root partition, then says fsck failed cuz the partition is mounted. I think my mtab and fstab are ok, but I'm not sure what's happening here. I thought there was an option in the secondary partition check that is supposed to make it skip over the root partition, but it doesn't appear to be. you have your / partition listed twice in /etc/fstab, remove that last entry. mtab is regenerated by mount, don't worry about it. 2) When I install and build a kernel, should /usr/include/linux/include be a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include? cuz right now, it ain't. NO, its NOT supposed to be a symlink, debian does this CORRECT unlike all the broken distributions who continue to symlink this incorrectly. 3) I built all my soundblaster modules (soundlow, sound, uart401, sb) but how to make them load automagically? modules.conf says not to edit i'm not sure what to do. Seems like such a simple thing, but... run modconf (fstab) /dev/hda13/ ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda10noneswap sw 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda5 /usrext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda7 /usr/local ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda8 /cdimageext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda9 /optext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda11/tmpext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda12/varext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda13/ ext2 defaults 0 2 delete this last line!! -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp6WmpuvTuAO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: three issues w/ my upgrade (fsck, modules, link)
At 05:02 AM 10/8/00 -0700, you wrote: 1) fsck during the boot sequence. I changed from a small root partition to several partitions. Now when the machine boots, it runs fsck on the former (and still) root partition, which passes, but the second time it runs fsck (shortly thereafter) it tries to run fsck on both the unmounted partitions *and* the root partition, then says fsck failed cuz the partition is mounted. I think my mtab and fstab are ok, but I'm not sure what's happening here. I thought there was an option in the secondary partition check that is supposed to make it skip over the root partition, but it doesn't appear to be. # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/hda1 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 Check the last number on the line in /etc/fstab and make sure its a 1 for the root partition, and all the other automatically mounted partitions (home/usr/whatever) are 2 in the pass column. BTW, /etc/mtab is for mounted filesystems, and thus shouldn't be edited by hand. 2) When I install and build a kernel, should /usr/include/linux/include be a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include? cuz right now, it ain't. Not on my potato boxen it isn't. 3) I built all my soundblaster modules (soundlow, sound, uart401, sb) but how to make them load automagically? modules.conf says not to edit i'm not sure what to do. Seems like such a simple thing, but... man update-modules ps: here are the mtab and fstab: (fstab) /dev/hda13 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda10 noneswap sw 0 0 proc/proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda5 /usrext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda7 /usr/local ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda8 /cdimageext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda9 /optext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda11 /tmpext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda12 /varext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda13 / ext2 defaults 0 2 You've got / listed twice doofus :) remove the last line and it'll work fine. -- Criggie
