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
> You made Grml for people to be flexible in remastering it? I think
> Grml was, and is complete as it is. If I want to add a daemon at
> startup I need no systemd to successful remastering Grml. But of
> course it is your decision.
>
> > If you're interested in a Grml flavor *without* systemd you're
> > invited to work on that, you might be also interested in picking up
> > file-rc as upstream respectively package maintainer (file-rc being
> > the init system we relied on so far and where no maintainer seems to
> > be present anymore, esp. once both Alex and me will orphan it).
>
> Thanks for the invitation to maintain Grml with sysvinit. But I will
> not have the time to maintain such a big change alone. But as grml is
> also listed in
> http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#GNU.2FLinux_distributio…
> I send a copy of this post to the devuan mailing list. Maybe there
> will be someone who is using Grml and interested to keep this systemd
> free.
>
> Regards
> Klaus
>
Systemd is the reason why I dropped GRML as an admin/recovery system,
myself. or rather GRML dropped me, as the sytemd version fails on some
of my older hardware. I mostly use a custom devuan image these days.
Just my 2p.
Cheers
--
Pierre
Hello,
as I could not post a blog comment at
http://blog.grml.org/archives/394-Is-Grml-still-alive.html I want to
leave a comment to this article here.
Many thanks for grml all over the years. Please keep on providing new
releases without systemd packages. There is no need for this bloated
piece of software for a text based distribution for system admins.
Maybe you can base grml on devuan, a systemd-free, debian-based
distribution in the future? https://devuan.org/ I am sure that you will
get help there if there are any questions.
Klaus
