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Re: booting from external disk
by August C. Quint 23 Mär '07

23 Mär '07

Hi, and thanks Michael for your reply. >> Maybe using Grub instead is worth a try. I think we should first try to solve problem #2. >> Sorry no idea yet. Can you please provide me a screenshot of the >> booting process where it hangs? Sorry, I don't know how to make a screenshot in this stage of booting. And I don't have a digital camera (yet). So I try to write down the lines visible: the last lines before the problem happesn are related to raidx, so here it goes: Success: loaded module raid456 Success: loaded module raid5 Success: loaded module raid6 Modprobe: FATAL: Module raid10 not found Done. Begin: Assemblying all MD arrays ... Now I get 6x the lines: usb 2-2: reset high speed USB device running ehci_hcd and address 2 followed by sd: 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00050000 And this will continue. It looks like it accessed the disk successfully but it tries to access the single disk as a raid-disk in this stage (but I'm no expert here). What can I do? Which information do you need? >> Oh, and you might want to try to use root=UUID=... instead of >> root=/dev/sd[a-z]... so you can make sure your system uses the >> correct device for booting. where do I have to put these modifications (I'm no expert here) ? I guess: I can use Knoppix to boot the machine and look for the file lio.conf (or so) on this external harddisk. Right? AugustQ

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booting from external disk
by August C. Quint 22 Mär '07

22 Mär '07

Hi, I'm looing for a Linux-system that can boot from an USB-hard-disk. Via a Google I found Grml. But I have some problems with this. So please allow me to describe the system, the problems etc. My system: Aldi offered a notebook in may 2006 and I bought one. This is my system, if you need more information about it let me know. What I did: I downloaded the grml.iso-file via grml.gwendoline.at, burned a Cd and started the notebook: works, fine. I added my external hard-disk via USB ( I removed the internal hard-disk for safety, I want to keep the installed XP) and installed the software via grml2hd: works, fine. For a test I stopped the machine, removed the CD and started it again. In the BIOS I've checked 'boot from USB-device' already and voila: it worked. The next day I wanted to do this again: problems. So please allow me to describe my problems. problem #1: the inital screen comes up with the 3 choices. By doing nothing the choice 'grml' was started. Next was a scrren with the text: loading 2.6.18-grml, followed by approx. 180 dots (takes 10 minutes or so). What's this? At the end of this a message was displayed: BIOS data check succesfull (or something similar). Now we come to the booting-process. This works, a lot of lines are running on the screen. But we come to problem #2: a message appears: usb 2-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 This will be repeated multiple times, some other messages are appearing and these messages appear over and over again. One of the messages between is: SCSI-error, return-code = 0x00050000 What's this? Can you please give me a hint. Thanks. AugustQ PS: on my desktop-machine I can easily switch operating system by removing the hard-disk (power off). I'm looking for a similar solution for my notebook. Opening a bay and swapping the disk is possible but I don't want it this way.

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chroot again
by martin yazdzik 21 Mär '07

21 Mär '07

Dear M and friends, Just for information, and please realise I am not complaining: root@grmllap1 ~ # chroot /mnt/sda4 root@grmllap1 / # apt-get update Err http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid Release.gpg Could not resolve 'www.debian-multimedia.org' Err http://ftp.de.debian.org stable Release.gpg Could not resolve 'ftp.de.debian.org' Note that, when my experimental partition(/mnt/sda4) is plain old debian, I do the same thing and can do all package management or upgrades, install drives, and so on, from my working workhorse grml install, but, as now, when the /mnt/sda4 is a grml install, something stops me from using my internet connexion to fetch things. I think it may be a bind issue, or not? At any rate, this means I cannot work on one OS while in the other, which is silly. It obviously has nothing to do with the working grml, because every other one day install, zb, debian, SuSE, Sabayon, lets me use my running connexion to work. All other chrooted commands work, as long as, obviously, they are not x server dependent. Best, martin

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time
by coscell＠mail.batol.net 19 Mär '07

19 Mär '07

Hello, After reboot, the system time is always incorrect. How to adjust it? Thank you!

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Third question
by coscell＠mail.batol.net 15 Mär '07

15 Mär '07

Hello, After startx, the screen disappeared (all black). Why and how to fix it? Thank you! Coscell

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Second question
by coscell＠mail.batol.net 15 Mär '07

15 Mär '07

Hello, After installed gnome-desktop-environment, my computer booted direct into gui. How can I still boot at text mode? Thank you! Coscell

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First question
by coscell＠mail.batol.net 15 Mär '07

15 Mär '07

Hello I'm a new user of grml. I've installed grml into hard disk. First question is: How to set sound volume? Thank you! Coscell

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grml2hd with a preexisting partition
by cmbrannon＠cox.net 11 Mär '07

11 Mär '07

Hi list, I just discovered Grml recently. I want to install it on my laptop's hard drive, using grml2hd. The laptop already runs Slackware 11.0. I chose a really lousy partitioning scheme when I installed Slackware: /dev/hda1, /boot, approx 40Mb /dev/hda2, swap, approx 512 Mb /dev/hda3, /, the remaining 19.5 Gb I don't want to get rid of /home when I install Grml, because it holds several gigabytes of assorted files. Is it possible to make grml2hd install to /dev/hda3 without destroying /home? PS, this is a good argument for having separate / and /home partitions; wish I had done that on the laptop! -- Chris

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time zone configuration, minor problem.
by Doug Smith 09 Mär '07

09 Mär '07

Ok, I am sorry I am writing about this again. However, here's whyu. I pulled in my mail today, and I had 104 messages, most of them absolute and total first order junk. Well, mailfilter to the rescue, and, as far as I know now, I am getting only the messages I want. Well, I need to know how to solve this: I have runb tzconfig as root, and set the time zone to the proper us-eastern. Tzconfig says, on repeated runs that this is what I am set to. However, I still, when running date, get results in CET. My TZ invironmental variable didn't change when I ran the configuration program. ShÅ“uld I just change this variable's value, then run ntpdate on the time server? Thanks. -- Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST

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minor problem with time zone configuration
by Doug Smith 08 Mär '07

08 Mär '07

--n Tine. I need to correct this before the change to daylight saving time here in the Eastern Us on Saturday night. What do I still need to change. Should I reconfigure locales or what? Thanks. Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST

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