April 2015 - Grml - lists.mur.at

Grml via ipxe's sanboot
by Jens Mueller 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Dear list, I'm trying to boot GRML over ipxe's sanboot. It fails when mounting root: Begin: Mounting root file system ... (initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system This is probably no surprise because sanboot is similar to booting using memdisk but without a download delay. mika wrote in "Booting ISO images from within GRUB2" (http://michael-prokop.at/blog/page/3/) "The good news is that Grml supports the memdiskfind/phram/mtdblock approach out-of-the-box." Meaning you do something like modprobe phram phram=memdisk,$(memdiskfind) modprobe mtdblock as mentioned here http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK#Linux. But memdiskfind returns nothing. My ipxe config contains :grmlsan sanboot ${url}/iso/grml32-small_2014.03.iso || goto failed Any hints to boot Grml over sanboot? Jens

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new mirror at ftp.icm.edu.pl
by Rafal Maszkowski 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

Is it the right place to ask if you are interested in new GRML mirror? The http://grml.org/download/mirrors/ page redirects to multitude of contacts on http://grml.org/contact/ , none of which is marked as prefered for new mirrors. Anyway - out data are below. Is there any archive you could recomend us to mirror from? I started with rsync://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/grml . FTP: ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/distributions/grml/ HTTP: http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/distributions/grml/ rsync: rsync://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/distributions/grml/ gopher: gopher://ftp.icm.edu.pl/1/pub/Linux/distributions/grml/ Sync schedule: Every 12 hrs Bandwidth: 10 Gbps Location: Poland, Warszawa, Pawińskiego 5A Sponsor: ICM UW, http://www.icm.edu.pl/ IP to authorize if necessary: 193.219.28.2, 2001:6A0:0:31::2 Email contact: sunsite(a)icm.edu.pl R. -- „Walczy on z całym zapamiętaniem przeciwko intelektowi” - z akt personalnych prof. A. Baeumlera

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grml-live
by John G. Heim 26 Apr '15

26 Apr '15

I want to make myself a custom grml disk that starts the speakup screen reader automatically. I successfully built a grml iso via grml-live but none of my customizations seem to have made it into the iso. The one thing that made it in is that the iso has my own name. Instead of it being grml_0.0-1.iso, it is vigrml_0.0-1.iso. But the hostname and username I set in /etc/grml/grml-live.local did not take. I don't really care too much about that. What I really want to do is to load the speakup_soft kernel module and run the espeakup command as early as possible in the boot process. Debian puts speakup_soft in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and runs espeakup via /etc/rcS.d/S19espeakup. I am familiar with fai so I added a class, VIGRML, to the list of classes in /etc/grml/grml-liv.local. It appears to have worked up to a point. My modified /etc/nitramfs-tools/modules file made it onto the grml-chroot. But the module is not loaded when I boot from the iso so I am going to say it did not make it into the initramfs. So this leads me to my next question ... What is the proper use of the grml-live command to tell it to run the fai scripts, then generate an initramfs, then build an iso? I suspect that it cannot be done. I am guessing grml-live installs initramfs-tools and builds the initramfs and *then* runs the fai scripts. So my fai script to put the /etc/initramfs-tools/modules file there was irrelevant. I have to chroot to /grml/grml-live/grml-chroot and rebuild the initramfs via the initramfs -u command. Well, back to the hosthame and username problem... Here is my grml-liv.local: # Local settings for grml-live CLASSES="GRMLBASE,GRML_FULL,AMD64,VIGRML" VERSION="0.0-1" RELEASENAME="grml-live" GRML_NAME="vigrml" HOSTNAME=vigrml USERNAME=vigrml # EOF

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grml virtualbox
by John G. Heim 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

I am trying to create a grml virtualbox virtual machine. My problem is that it hangs during the boot from the live iso image. I'm blind so I can't see the screen but I took a screen shot and ran an ocr on it. The last 2 lines say this: a it ganr sgsten hangs nan, disahie udeu uith buutuptiun "nuudeu . a starting the hutplug euents dispatcher: udeud. When grml is booting, at some point it says something like, "If your system hangs now disable something or other". I am thinking that is what is happening. But the ocr is so bad I don't know what to disable. Can somebody tell me what that whole message says? I created the vm with vboxmanage at the command line. So there might be something wrong with the vm itself. Here is the output from showvminfo if it helps: Name: grml Groups: / Guest OS: Debian (32 bit) UUID: 0c3d9b10-476c-4d44-984c-672223bd593d Config file: /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/grml.vbox Snapshot folder: /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/Snapshots Log folder: /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/Logs Hardware UUID: 0c3d9b10-476c-4d44-984c-672223bd593d Memory size: 1024MB Page Fusion: off VRAM size: 128MB CPU exec cap: 100% HPET: off Chipset: piix3 Firmware: BIOS Number of CPUs: 1 PAE: on Long Mode: off Synthetic CPU: off CPUID overrides: None Boot menu mode: message and menu Boot Device (1): DVD Boot Device (2): HardDisk Boot Device (3): Not Assigned Boot Device (4): Not Assigned ACPI: on IOAPIC: on Time offset: 0ms RTC: local time Hardw. virt.ext: on Nested Paging: on Large Pages: off VT-x VPID: on VT-x unr. exec.: on State: running (since 2015-04-17T02:38:37.290000000) Monitor count: 1 3D Acceleration: off 2D Video Acceleration: off Teleporter Enabled: off Teleporter Port: 0 Teleporter Address: Teleporter Password: Tracing Enabled: off Allow Tracing to Access VM: off Tracing Configuration: Autostart Enabled: off Autostart Delay: 0 Default Frontend: Storage Controller Name (0): SATA Controller Storage Controller Type (0): IntelAhci Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0 Storage Controller Max Port Count (0): 30 Storage Controller Port Count (0): 30 Storage Controller Bootable (0): on Storage Controller Name (1): IDE Controller Storage Controller Type (1): PIIX4 Storage Controller Instance Number (1): 0 Storage Controller Max Port Count (1): 2 Storage Controller Port Count (1): 2 Storage Controller Bootable (1): on SATA Controller (0, 0): /home/john/grml.vdi (UUID: 660b5876-7d75-4c46-93a1-53b448acbfb5) IDE Controller (0, 0): /home/john/Downloads/grml32-full_2014.11.iso (UUID: eef9e9b9-0bd1-44c9-b94b-d07b190d09c6) NIC 1: MAC: 0800273EB948, Attachment: Bridged Interface 'eth0', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0, Promisc Policy: deny, Bandwidth group: none NIC 2: disabled NIC 3: disabled NIC 4: disabled NIC 5: disabled NIC 6: disabled NIC 7: disabled NIC 8: disabled Pointing Device: PS/2 Mouse Keyboard Device: PS/2 Keyboard UART 1: disabled UART 2: disabled LPT 1: disabled LPT 2: disabled Audio: enabled (Driver: ALSA, Controller: SB16) Clipboard Mode: disabled Drag'n'drop Mode: disabled Session type: GUI/Qt Video mode: 1024x768x16 at 0,0 VRDE: disabled USB: disabled EHCI: disabled USB Device Filters: <none> Available remote USB devices: <none> Currently Attached USB Devices: <none> Bandwidth groups: <none> Shared folders: <none> VRDE Connection: not active Clients so far: 0 Video capturing: not active Capture screens: 0 Capture file: /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/grml.webm Capture dimensions: 1024x768 Capture rate: 512 kbps Capture FPS: 25 Guest: Configured memory balloon size: 0 MB OS type: Debian Additions run level: 0 Guest Facilities: No active facilities.

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Persisteny feature not working
by Michael Hekel 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

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