April 2006 - Grml - lists.mur.at

re: grml boot from iso
by boulhian 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

You can also boot grml_iso from HD without grml_CD. Condition: you must have a linux partition with grub as linux loader on your HD. Here is a way to do so: 1-copy grml_iso to a partition on HD: (hda5 as example). grml tohd=/dev/hda5 2-reboot to your linux box.(my / is on /dev/hda5). 3-create grml directory in /boot of your linux partition : as root mkdir /boot/grml 4-copy the files "linux26" and "minirt26.gz" from grml_CD/boot/isolinux to /boot/grml 5-edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to add entry for grml. here is as example the entry of grml in my /boot/grub/menu.lst # this entry boot grml from iso_image on /dev/hda5 title Grml root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/grml/linux26 fromhd=/dev/hda5 lang=fr vga=797 ramdisk=100000 initrd /boot/grml/minirt26.gz 6-it's all. reboot and pick Grml at grub menu. Thanks Grml team for the great work.

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too many running services at boot up
by martin yazdzik 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Dear Friends, I admit that you probably do not consider grml the perfect noobie distro, but, since everything works perfectly with no hassles whatsoever, you are going to find yourselves contending with more and more of us. The only thing I wish to change at all, but cannot quite figure out how to do easily is get rid of all the stuff that laptop users hate on boot-up. Yes, I know I could try manually editing the conf files, but am not sure how. Is there a sage way, since the KDE gui does not work, to get rid of stuff like cron, roxen, and so on that are useless and time consuming for lappy users who reboot tonnes of times per diem? Or can one point KsysV to the correct file? There appear to be at least four files in /etc which might be the ones that need be edited, but I am in over my head. Interestingly, install on a sata/atapi machine with a pcie ati video card was a breeze, up and running in less than half an hour, and much, much nicer than the thousand and one debian workarounds, or some of the genuinely eccentric Kanotix "improvements". Anyway, if there is a way simply to comment out the stuff I do not need, I am happy to do that. Very best wishes, Martin

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Connecting to a wireless network
by Chris Norman 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

Hi people, How do I connect to a wireless network with GRML? My wireless card is located on /dev/wifi0. Cheers. Chris Norman

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Boot hangs at "Looking for CD-ROM"
by John Magolske 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

Greetings, I'm trying to boot grml_small_0.2 from CDROM on a Dell inspiron 3200 laptop. The splash screen comes up, the informational screens F1 - F10 are viewable, but the boot process seems to hang at the point of searching for a cdrom: ... * Checking for USB. [ ok ] * Checking for firewire. [ ok ] * Scanning for USB/Firewire devices. [ ok ] * Enabling DMA acceleration for: hda [IBM-DTCA-24090] * Enabling DMA acceleration for: hdc [TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1702BC] * Looking for CD-ROM in: /dev/hdc At this point the cdrom starts spinning...and the process hangs indefinitely. I also tried the following boot options (individually and together), to no avail: noapic nolapic pci=noacpi nosmp nodma grml_0.7 also hangs at this same point. The md5sums verify as ok. What other things could I try to get this to boot? Thanks for any suggestions, John ---- System info: Dell Inspiron 3200 D266XT, Pentium II Intel MMX 96 Mb of RAM Hard Drive: Generic IDE Disk Type40 Hard Disk controller: Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller CD ROM: Toshiba XM 1702BC Pentium II processor to PCI bridge: Intel 82443BX (without GART support) PCI to ISA bridge (EIO mode): Intel 82371EB Power Management Controller: Intel 82371EB

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How to use Splashscreen grml Scripts
by Keller Florian 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hello, First of all I want thank you for this great Live CD. Best one I know at the moment and I've used Many (slax, knoppix, whoppix, ....). There is only one thing that I miss in german called Modularität *g* like Slax Distro. Your Monitor Detections Script are the best I've ever seen. So now to my Problem: I'm currently remastering grml v0.8 to use it as a VPN Remote Connect Boot CD. I've seen you allready made some script for using Splashscreen while booting. /etc/init.d/splash.sh and /usr/bin/splash_grml.sh And also you using runlevel.conf script instead of rc.d symlinks. But if I integrate the splash.sh Script I didnt see the Framebuffer Loading Screen. So could someone explain me how to install this usefull stuff, would be nice. Best Regards, Florian Keller Unix Specialist

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boot from iso
by Ashish 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hi, if we have an iso image of grml on hard disk can we boot grml from that iso...???? if yes....how??? -- Thanks, __________________________________ Ashish

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Re: [Grml] boot from iso
by Johannes Beyerlein 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Afaik in grml 0.7 was a hd-installer introduced, another option is not known by me. On Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:53, Ashish wrote: > Hi, > > if we have an iso image of grml on hard disk can we boot > grml from that iso...???? > > if yes....how??? > > -- > > Thanks, > __________________________________ > Ashish > _______________________________________________ > Grml mailing list - Grml(a)mur.at > http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml > join #grml on irc.freenode.org > grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/

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commands
by Ashish 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi All, I am new to grml...The distribution is really great...but how can i found what r the utilities present in the distribution except for the packages list which are found on grml.org. The is no proper documentation in English lang...plz help. -- Thanks, __________________________________ grml fan.....

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JFYI: symlinks /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd do not exist
by Michael Prokop 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hello grml-users, as mentioned on http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_0.7 you might have noticed, that the symlinks to /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd don't exist on your grml 0.7 system. To fix this issue just run: # cd /etc/udev/rules.d/ # ln -s ../cd-aliases-generator.rules z75_cd-aliases-generator.rules If you want to mount a CD/DVD in grml live mode just manually mount the corresponding device (/dev/hdc or whatever) to /mnt/cdrom or /mnt/dvd. We are working on an updated version of udev which will fix this issue automatically on your grml-box when upgrading the udev package. regards, -mika-

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more timezone info
by my 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Dear Friends, If any of you get bored with this, you can please feel free to tell me to shut up - but I really love the distro, as things just plain work, and this is positively frustrating. In an attempt to retrace the whole install, I took the following actions while still in grml live- 1. tzconfig to America/New_York date revealed the local time, EDT, to be five hours earlier than UTC, and showed as well UTC as being the value obtained from my hw clock, which is, of course, set to local time. 2. clean reboot, using tzselect with posix value set as "NYC-0", date revealed local time to be CEST and utc to be what my hw clock says. Thinking about this rationally, this can only mean that the live disk reports the hw clock as being UTC and there appears to be no way to tell it that this laptop BIOS is set to local time. On the debian installer, for instance, it asks at install if the hw clock is set to utc. This is an urgent need, as there was some dreadful workaround in kanotix, which was also a pain. Thus, the grml2hd needs one or two more questions, perhaps something like "is the bios clock set to utc?" and something like "location" as many config files set the locations as at. In other words two things have to happen at hd install: 1. location has to be set as where it is, not at 2. we have to be able to tell the install that the BIOS clock settings are either UTC or localtime. Now, I am am off to try to install again, with xorg 7 and fglrx drivers and see if I can get that to work. Thanks again. Best, M "...children and young people feel instinctively the difference between those who genuinely wish them well and those who regard them merely as raw material for some scheme." --Russell

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