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/hda10 none swap sw 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda5 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda7 /usr/local ext2 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda8 /cdimage ext2 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda9 /opt ext2 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda11 /tmp ext2 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda12 /var ext2 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda13 / ext2 defaults 0 2 delete this last line!! -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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