May 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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Re: [Grml] grub?
by Martin Yazdzik 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

grub> root (hd0,3) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no Error 15: File not found I know I am forgetting something.. sorry. MOn Thursday 04 May 2006 14:08, you wrote: > oh I forgot something :) > > >root (hd0,0) > >setup (hd0) > > on root you have to insert the position of the /boot partition. > > Best regards, > > Tony > > 2006/5/4, Martin Yazdzik <yazdzik(a)nyct.net>: > > Dear Friends, > > > > I have decided, probably against sane better judgement to go to grml as > > my main mission critical OS. > > > > Now, since I have been booting from grub on my other linux partition, I > > wish, obbviously, to boot from the grub files in /boot, as I am going to > > delete the other partition entirely. > > > > I need therefore, to make sure the computer boots from grml before I do > > anything else. > > > > Good old days; grub install /dev/sda > > > > response from grub: > > > > grub> install /dev/sda > > > > Error 12: Invalid device requested > > > > grub> install /dev/hd0 > > > > Error 12: Invalid device requested > > > > grub> > > > > > > > > Have I done something to hurt its feelings? > > > > Best, > > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > -- > Open Source - Open Mind -Try OS-Forge > http://os-forge.net | http://pacms.de > ----------------------------------------------- > Homepage: http://tony-wolf.os-forge.net

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Re: [Grml] suspend2 enabled kernel
by Michael Prokop 29 May '06

29 May '06

(Added mailinglist to Cc: again) * Steffen Liebergeld <stepardo(a)gmail.com> [20060529 11:42]: > On Sat, 27 May 2006 10:55:27 +0200, Michael Prokop <mika(a)grml.org> said: [support swsuspend2 in future?] > > As kernel 2.6.17 will provide the SMP alternatives system this might > > be even more interesting. *But*: the user-space software suspend > > interface¹ will hit 2.6.17 as well. I'd like to see the things > > "calming down" a little bit before integrating another out-of-tree > > patch. Hopefully swsusp2 features will hit mainline at all in the > > near future. But I'm keeping an eye on it anyway - promised. :) > I know you put lots of work into grml and always try to do *the best > thing*. At the moment it seems reasonable to wait. > But -for this time- one could enable the support for swsuspend (1) in > /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf, because it is already enabled in the > kernel. I needed too much time to figure that out... Good catch, thanks. The acpi/hibernate/suspend stuff is on our todolist for grml 0.8. regards, -mika-

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Bug in grml-network
by Kai Wilke 27 May '06

27 May '06

High Mika, habe ja grml-network portiert, siehe Release kwtools-0.4.3-8. Ich lade gerade grml_0.7-3 und kann noch nicht nachschauen. Aber etwas ist mir aufgefallen: Szenario -------------------------------------------------------------- Wenn ich 2 Interfaces mit 2 verschiedenen default routen habe erscheint folgende Fehler Meldung In Zeile 92 Starting nmap 3.93 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-05-27 20:24 CEST Invalid character in host specification. Note in particular that square brackets [] are no longer allowed. They were redundant and can simply be removed. QUITTING! Wenn du die Apostrophe von der Variable ($GW) mit den IP Adressen nimmst gehts. Die Generierung der IP Adressen und der Schnittstellen werden mit Treppchen belegt. Das sieht unschoen im dialog Fenster aus. GW="1. IP 2. IP" Abhilfe schafft in den Zeilen 90-91 print zu benutzen: GW="`print $(route -n | awk '/^0\.0\.0\.0/{print $2}')`" GWDEV="`print $(route -n | awk '/^0\.0\.0\.0/{print $NF}')`" Im BTS habe ich nichts dazu gefunden oder bin zu bloed. Sieht naemlich so aus als wenn dort noch garnichts ist. Soll ich das nu melden? Ich meine das das Schnitzer sind und auch so mal schnell geloest werden koennen. Schoenes WE noch Kiste -- ####################################################################### Netzworkk Kai Wilke kiste(a)netzworkk.de http://www.netzworkk.de http://netzworkk.berlios.de

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Wörterbuch ding stellt keine Umlaute mehr da
by Michael Sucha 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hallo, mein Wörterbuch ding stellt seit neuestem keine Umlaute mehr dar. google konnte genausowenig Auskunft geben wie die manpage von ding. Hat jemand ein ähnliches Problem und hat dieses gelöst? Gruß Michael -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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suspend2 enabled kernel
by Steffen Liebergeld 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hi, are there plans to support swsuspend2 in the future? Would be nice;-) -- mit freundlichen Grüssen Steffen Liebergeld

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ATI drivers vs. Mesa
by Werner Schuster (murphee) 26 May '06

26 May '06

howdy, I tried to get the fglrx-kernel-2.6.16-grml drivers for ATI, but it seems like that creates problems with the install Mesa drivers, ie. I get the following error: Unpacking replacement fglrx-driver ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx-driver_8.25.18-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2', which is also in package xlibmesa-gl dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Could I remove the Mesa libs? Removing the Mesa package doesn't work, because that would remove half my system (even amarok depends on it). What about removing the libGL.so.1.2 file, so that the fglrx can install its version; if the driver causes trouble, would this make my system instable? Thanks for any tips, murphee -- Blog @ http://jroller.com/page/murphee Maintainer of EclipseShell @ http://eclipse-shell.sourceforge.net/

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Re: [Grml] PCMCIA Network card not recognized
by John Magolske 26 May '06

26 May '06

>Seems that your network card is not configured. How do you connect to your >provider's modem? ethernet? >If it's ethernet you need to configure eth0 as well. > >greets Jimmy Thanks, running grml-network "NIC" "Configure your Wired and Wireless Lan" "DHCP broadcast" got the pcmcia ethernet card working. I'd tried this earlier, but I think my problems were related to there being multiple instances of "auto eth0" & "iface eth0 inet manual" in /etc/network/interfaces, possibly from previously running "Set up an internet connection" over & over... Editing the dupes out and running the "NIC" script set things right: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Regards, John

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g++ Problem
by Jan Stöfer 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hallo Miachael, der Fix hat das Problem gelöst, vielen Dank für den Hinweis. Gruss, Jan

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