Hi!
I'm proud to be able to announce the availability of daily snapshots
of grml.
This service is based on the grml-live framework (see
http://grml.org/grml-live/ for details) and besides a new grml
flavour we are currently working on (known as grml-medium) we also
provide Debian/stable based grml-ISOs for the first time to the
public. All the flavours are available in a 32bit version as well
as a 64bit version, so you can choose from 12 different ISOs at
total on a daily base.
More details are available at:
http://grml.supersized.org/archives/269-Daily-grml-snapshots.html
The daily snapshots can be found at:
http://daily.grml.org/
Enjoy grml!
regards,
-mika-
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Hi all,
I am quite new to GRML (and Debian/Knoppix based distributions).
However, I have some experience with other Linux distris.
So recently I got a virtual appliance with Grml installed already.
One of the first things was to use apt-get (first attempt) and
aptitude (second attempt) to upgrade all upgradable packages.
The results was the same:
I could not boot anymore. The only thing that appears is 'GRUB'
without any further error message.
I have spent two days already to figure out what happens. I have
seen reports about similar errors when updating ubuntu versions.
The reason was a switch from hdX to sdX (and a mismatch of the UUIDs).
I checked all that: UUIDs are fine. And even with the device names the
symptoms are the same.
I then tried to reinstall GRUB. The installation process yielded no
errors (the menu.lst and the device map are fine). Nevertheless
I get the same error :-(
Then I thought: Maybe it's only a GRUB problem and tried LILO. With
lilo I get some more information, but also the boot process stops very
early. I get error messages about some modules that cannot be loaded.
(I currently have no access and, thus, cannot type the exact error message here.)
I am wondering whether this has something to do with the
linux-kernel-header-grml package which apt-get/aptitude were keen to
remove?
I am also wondering: I surely am not the only one who ever upgraded
a GRML 1.0 system, or? Did noone ever encountered a similar problem?
I appreciate every hint which might bring me closer to a solution
of this most annoying problem.
Thanks in advance,
Jan
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Hi Mika,
> > ----
> > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
[...]
> > ii udev 0.103-1grml2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
>
> You are sure, that this is the output of the affected grml2hd
> installation? This would be interesting. :)
I did a chroot /mnt/sda1 (where I had previously mounted the
affected grml installation) and then entered the dpkg command that you
have sent. So I assume that should be the correct output, shouldn
it? Is there room for mistakes?
> > Here is lilo.conf (which I currently use):
[...]
> > => the hard disk is really sda (the only existing partition is sda1)
>
> Ok, so just replace the:
> append="grml_from_hd root=UUID=ffb575cc-c8df-4063-e0f8cb6aff03 "
> with
> append="grml_from_hd root=/dev/sda1"
That worked! Thanks a lot!!
> You can edit the commandline of grub interactive (just press 'e',
> then edit the according line(s) and after pressing 'enter' to
> activate the changes, finally boot the entry using 'b') as well.
When booting the corrupt system I do not even see a menu. It is
not possible to enter anything since as soon as 'GRUB' appears
the system hangs.
But that doesn't matter now since with LILO everything works fine.
Thanks again.
Best regards,
Jan
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Hi Mika,
first of all, thank you very much for the fast reply.
I guess you know how frustrating it can be to spend many hours
on a problem and finally ending up with no idea how to go on.
So I was very glad to find your reply in my inbox so soon :-)
> The last 1-2 lines of the output would be interesting.
Here are the error messages when booting with LILO:
----
[....]
No root-on-loop configured, skipping
Begin: Loading MD modules ...
Failure: failed to load module linear.
Failure: failed to load module multipath.
Failure: failed to load module raid0.
Failure: failed to load module raid1.
[....]
Success: loaded module raid456.
[...]
Failure: failed to load module raid10.
Done.
Warning: missing mdaadm.conf file, trying to create one...
Segmentation fault
Done.
Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...
----
> Can you please provide the output of:
> dpkg --list mdadm lvm2 initramfs-tools lilo grub udev
> of the system? (Just boot grml live and chroot into your system)
----
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii grub 0.97-19 GRand Unified Bootloader
ii initramfs-tools 0.85c tools for generating an initramfs
ii lilo 22.6.1-9 LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can loa
ii lvm2 2.02.06-3 The Linux Logical Volume Manager
ii mdadm 2.5.6-6 tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software
ii udev 0.103-1grml2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
----
Here is lilo.conf (which I currently use):
----
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
boot=/dev/sda
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-grml
label="2.6.20-grml
append="grml_from_hd root=UUID=ffb575cc-c8df-4063-e0f8cb6aff03 "
read-only
vga=0x0317
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-grml
----
=> I left out only the other sections and the bootscreen related lines
=> I tried also without boot screen
=> I checked that all the files mentioned above do really exist
=> the UUID is the correct one (checked with Ubuntu live CD)
=> the hard disk is really sda (the only existing partition is sda1)
Here is the current menu.lst (after removal of comments etc):
-> this one is the one with /dev/sdX:
----
default 0
timeout 10
title Debian GNU/LInux, kernel 2.6.20-grml
root hd0,0
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-grml root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-grml
savedefault
----
=> as I said: I also found detailed descriptions how to install
grub manually which I followed exactly (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-natively)
=> the result was the same (only 'GRUB' being displayed before
the system was hanging)
-> this is the only change of the original menu.lst with the UUIDs:
----
[... same lines as above ...]
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-grml root=UUID=ffb575cc-c8df-4063--e0f8cb6aff03 ro vga=791
----
In your third mail you wrote:
> Just verified it on my own: root=UUID=... still/again does not work
> with initramfs-tools. So just use root=/dev/... on your grub cmdline
> in the meanwhile to boot your system, I'm debugging the problem....
I already did that in the case of grub (see modified menu.lst above).
The result is the same. Or did I miss a step somewhere? After changing
the menu.lst do I have to do any additional steps? (I think I reinstalled grub after that, but I am not sure.)
By the way: I got the GRML virtual appliance from:
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/899
(I don't know whether the distributor modified the VMachine
in the meantime.)
Thanks again for your help. Hope you can guide me how to
resolve that problem.
Best regards,
Jan
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Hi All,
I am using ;
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
unstable main contrib no
n-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
unstable main contrib no
n-free
in /etc/apt/sources.list as I am in Seattle.
I get the following error when I try to install
grml-live;
Selecting previously deselected package
squashfs-tools.
(Reading database ... 126198 files and directories
currently installed.)
Unpacking squashfs-tools (from
.../squashfs-tools_1%3a3.2r2-8_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/squashfs-tools_1%3a3.2r2-8_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/man/man1/mksquashfs.1.gz', which is also
in package squashfs
Selecting previously deselected package fai-client.
Unpacking fai-client (from
.../fai-client_3.2.1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package fai-server.
Unpacking fai-server (from
.../fai-server_3.2.1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package grml-live.
Unpacking grml-live (from .../grml-live_0.0.2_all.deb)
...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/squashfs-tools_1%3a3.2r2-8_i386.deb
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale:
188K
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code
(1)
apt-get install grml-live 15.62s user 7.19s system 3%
cpu 10:38.00 total
Thank,
Charles
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