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Re: [Grml] [PATCH] grml-chroot enhance: fail-safe when umount fails
by Michael Gebetsroither 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Tong Sun wrote: > Revisiting an old issue. > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Michael Gebetsroither > <gebi(a)sbox.tugraz.at <mailto:gebi@sbox.tugraz.at>> wrote: > > Tong Sun wrote: > > NACK as this causes problems with multiple grml-chroots running. > > > --- > > usr_sbin/grml-chroot | 2 +- > > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/usr_sbin/grml-chroot b/usr_sbin/grml-chroot > > index eb9cefc..bce9c50 100755 > > --- a/usr_sbin/grml-chroot > > +++ b/usr_sbin/grml-chroot > > @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ function mountit > > function umount_all > > { > > for i in $MOUNTED_; do > > - umount "${DEST_}/$i" > > + umount "${DEST_}/$i" || umount -l "${DEST_}/$i" > > done > > } > > > > > In this case, the sentence in man, "After COMMAND exits, mounts are > cleaned up properly." might not be always correct. Right, it's not entirely correct. If you close multiple grml-chroot instances in the wrong order you will experience mountpoints from grml-chroot not cleand up. And get the appropriate error messages. Though your patch destroys _every_ other grml-chroot instance running in parallel because you just unmount filesystems which are in use. greets, michael

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Grml 2010.04 released
by Michael Prokop 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi Grml fans, on behalf of the Grml team, I'm proud to announce a new stable release: Grml 2010.04 with codename Grmlmonster, available in flavours grml, grml-medium and grml-small and all of them as 32bit and 64bit version has been released. The official release announcements providing all the relevant news are available at: grml => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2010.04/ grml64 => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml64-2010.04/ grml-medium => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-medium-2010.04/ grml64-medium => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml64-medium-2010.04/ grml-small => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-small-2010.04/ grml64-small => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml64-small-2010.04/ Issues regarding the releases can be found in the grml-wiki at: grml => http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_2010.04 grml64 => http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64_2010.04 grml-medium => http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-medium_2010.04 grml64-medium => http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64-medium_2010.04 grml-small => http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-small_2010.04 grml64-small => http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64-small_2010.04 As usual you can get the ISO(s) via bittorrent, http and/or ftp from the mirrors listed at: http://grml.org/download/ or just visit http://download.grml.org/ to use our new GeoIP mirror setup (automatically try to figure out the best matching mirror). Have fun and enjoy the new release! As usual your feedback is highly appreciated. regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc

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can't mount squashfs
by John G. Heim 25 Mai '10

25 Mai '10

Hi, I am trying to modify the grml CD to allow me to include the Dell open management tools. This is so that I can boot from a grml CD and configure the RAID controller on a Dell server. I am trying to follow the instructions on the wiki but I can't mount the squashfs. The error message I get is below. I am trying this on a debian squeeze machine with a 2.6.30 kernel. # mount -o loop -t squashfs ./new/live/grml.squashfs ./loop/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so oot@lambeau:~/grml#I have done

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Grml-CDs
by Michael Prokop 20 Mai '10

20 Mai '10

Hi, some of you may already have noticed that we are providing free (as in beer) Grml CDs (Grmlmonster) to interested people. To reduce the shipping costs it would be great if you get multiple cds (>=5) at once and provide it to your local peer group like co-workers, linux user group members, fellow hackers, friends or co-students. If you want some Grml CDs to share it with other people to spread Grml just send me a mail with your address and the designated number of CDs. thanks && regards -mika- P.S: Follow us on twitter [http://twitter.com/grmlproject] or identica [http://identi.ca/grml], we already announced this promotion there.

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loop mount squashfs
by glenn greenfield 20 Mai '10

20 Mai '10

> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 16:44:53 -0500 > From: "John G. Heim" <jheim(a)math.wisc.edu> > I am trying to modify the grml CD to allow me to include the Dell open > management tools. This is so that I can boot from a grml CD and configure > the RAID controller on a Dell server. > > I am trying to follow the instructions on the wiki The instructions I found were somewhat outdated and grml-live is now the recommended way, not remastering. Just the same, I did a remaster too. :) > The error message I get is below. I am trying this on a debian > squeeze machine with a 2.6.30 kernel. I found it easiest to install and boot the the GRML kernel for remastering. > > # mount -o loop -t squashfs ./new/live/grml.squashfs ./loop/ > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, > missing codepage or helper program, or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so Perhaps you have the wrong filename? mount -o loop -t squashfs isomount/live/grml64-small.squashfs squashmount/ If you like, I can send over my notes on remastering off list. -- glenn greenfield

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Call for Help: Grml's Download webpage
by Michael Prokop 14 Mai '10

14 Mai '10

Hi! We need your help! http://grml.org/download/ sucks from user's POV. Too overloaded, rc vs. stable not clearly visible,.. We'd like to see that page improved. I for myself like the way Ubuntu is doing that with http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download We already have a GeoIP setup for our mirrors (being http://download.grml.org/), we just don't have an according integration into our homepage yet. What I'd like to see: * a "wizard-like" download webpage, similar to http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download * provide an easy way to choose between the flavours (default to grml-full, 32bit) and stable vs. testing/development versions (release candidates and maybe even dailys from daily.grml.org?) * provide a better integration of checksum (files) and information about flavours * [ your place for innovation :) ] You think you could help us? We'd love to hear from you! regards, -mika-

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Re: [Grml] Installing/configuring plain-Debian system with grml-specific > kernel/Speakup/other options (Keith Hinton)
by glenn greenfield 12 Mai '10

12 Mai '10

> 1. Installing/configuring plain-Debian system with grml-specific > kernel/Speakup/other options (Keith Hinton) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 01:49:34 -0400 > From: Keith Hinton <keithint1234(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Grml] Installing/configuring plain-Debian system with > grml-specific kernel/Speakup/other options > To: grml <grml(a)mur.at> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTin_yIAofmE2JNUlpTHKXVUZsEg4nuDhaf3sg_Zf(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi, > I have read all documentation available throughout http://www.grml.org itself. > Despite all this, I am presented with a situation that I'm trying to figure out. > The GRML kernel for quite sometime now (beginning with release 2009.10 > and above) has continued to provide excilent support for my wireless > card in a new laptop computer that I recently aquired. > I happily have been executing grml-network to configure the wireless > card, enable WPA-encryption, and everything else needed to launch > primary networking on the GRML CD with the Speakup Linux screen > reader, and as of right now am using present available stable release > of GRML LiveCD. > What I am trying to do is: > 1. Install a Debian system (rather than GRML directly to hard-drive) however: > 1. Somehow I need grml's kernel (the one compiled for 64-bit support) > the present available version to somehow be used in the Debian > environment on my hard-drive, because you folks have already taken > care of the Speakup modules, and the CPU frequency scailing and other > options. > I'm trying to figure out to do that, and the second thing I am asking > for assistance in doing is: > How to insure that WPA works out of the box with the given wireless > network I'm trying to use (or that grml-network) will be able to make > use out of the Debian system to assist me with this task. > That's specifically what I'd like to do-I just don't want to have to > spend millions of hours trying to fight the grml-specific stuff to get > what I'm trying to get working. > GRML's kernel is half the battle; the rest of this fight is in getting > grml-network to work from within the plain Debian system on top of > having GRML's 2.6.whatever kernel installed rather than the standard > kernel that Debian would use-because that kernel would then require > possible manual configuration-and I am not even sure if Speakup itself > is a Debian package-I assume the GRML team uses Speakup from Debian > Cid/Unstable. > > If anyone from the GRML team could assist me in this matter or if > anyone else using GRML specifically has any specific ideas on this > process, I'd appreciate whatever assistance possible. > While plenty of GRML documentation does exist, there isn't anything > specific to what I'm trying to have done so that's why I'm asking here > for any possible suggestions. > (The hardware works perfectly fine on the GRML LiveCD system.) > I'm just trying to figure out how to make sure that when I reboot, > GRML's present kernel will run, along with > Speakup/espeak/espeakup/etc, along with grml-network etc. > I could of course install GRML itself via grml2hd, but would rather > install a plain-Debian system instead. > Thanks for helping. > > Regards, --Keith > Keith, I can confirm that the grml kernel installed and worked just fine on 64 bit Debian Sid. I did not try the speakup and related packages. -- glenn greenfield

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Installing/configuring plain-Debian system with grml-specific kernel/Speakup/other options
by Keith Hinton 11 Mai '10

11 Mai '10

Hi, I have read all documentation available throughout http://www.grml.org itself. Despite all this, I am presented with a situation that I'm trying to figure out. The GRML kernel for quite sometime now (beginning with release 2009.10 and above) has continued to provide excilent support for my wireless card in a new laptop computer that I recently aquired. I happily have been executing grml-network to configure the wireless card, enable WPA-encryption, and everything else needed to launch primary networking on the GRML CD with the Speakup Linux screen reader, and as of right now am using present available stable release of GRML LiveCD. What I am trying to do is: 1. Install a Debian system (rather than GRML directly to hard-drive) however: 1. Somehow I need grml's kernel (the one compiled for 64-bit support) the present available version to somehow be used in the Debian environment on my hard-drive, because you folks have already taken care of the Speakup modules, and the CPU frequency scailing and other options. I'm trying to figure out to do that, and the second thing I am asking for assistance in doing is: How to insure that WPA works out of the box with the given wireless network I'm trying to use (or that grml-network) will be able to make use out of the Debian system to assist me with this task. That's specifically what I'd like to do-I just don't want to have to spend millions of hours trying to fight the grml-specific stuff to get what I'm trying to get working. GRML's kernel is half the battle; the rest of this fight is in getting grml-network to work from within the plain Debian system on top of having GRML's 2.6.whatever kernel installed rather than the standard kernel that Debian would use-because that kernel would then require possible manual configuration-and I am not even sure if Speakup itself is a Debian package-I assume the GRML team uses Speakup from Debian Cid/Unstable. If anyone from the GRML team could assist me in this matter or if anyone else using GRML specifically has any specific ideas on this process, I'd appreciate whatever assistance possible. While plenty of GRML documentation does exist, there isn't anything specific to what I'm trying to have done so that's why I'm asking here for any possible suggestions. (The hardware works perfectly fine on the GRML LiveCD system.) I'm just trying to figure out how to make sure that when I reboot, GRML's present kernel will run, along with Speakup/espeak/espeakup/etc, along with grml-network etc. I could of course install GRML itself via grml2hd, but would rather install a plain-Debian system instead. Thanks for helping. Regards, --Keith

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Timezone problem
by Darshaka Pathirana 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi! When booting grml on a system where Windows is installed and the hardware-clock is set to local time I often get annoyed when finding out that the timestamps are all wrong because grml assumes the system is set to UTC. There might be a boot option to fix this ("grml gmt tz=..." ?) but I would prefer such an option somewhere in the start menu. Would that be possible or is there another way for doing that (quickly)? Greetings - Darsha

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asus 1005ha-m and grml-kernel 2.6.31
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hello, i use the grml-squeeze with kernel 2.6.31 on my netbook asus 1005ha-m. I use speakup and brltty. But i want to show another User some photos or videos. mplayer did not use any video output. Lsmod show me, that there is now video driver loaded. Which driver must i load, to use mplayer with which -vo option to show another user a video? Thanks Dietmar

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zsh for all users
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hello, i need some help. After installing grml-squeeze on my netbook ausus 1005ha-m the from my added users don't use the zsh, they use bash. What must i do, that all users use zsh? Thanks for your help. Dietmar

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pxe-boot-problems
by Martin Schulte 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hello, i'm using grml the first time, and i run in some problems. I followed this guide http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver to boot grml via pxe. My default config-file looks like this: ----- LABEL grml KERNEL linux26 APPEND root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=main:/nfs/grml boot=live lang=us nomce quiet apm=power-off nodhcp noprompt noeject initrd=minirt26.gz vga=791 ----- I copied the linux26 and the minirt26.gz file to my tftpboot-directory. PXE-booting worked before. I mounted the grml-medium_2009.10.iso using 'mount -o loop' to /nfs/grml. This path (/nfs) is entered in the /etc/exports and works fine. While booting, i get the message: ------ Could not find kernel image: linux ------ If you look above in my default the kernel is set this way: KERNEL linux26 so, i first don't unterstand the sense of this message, because the kernel is named: linux26 Second, after renaming linux26 into linux, this message don't occurs, but the system is going down, soon. Someone who knows the resons? Thanks, Martin

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grml-quickconfig behavior
by Ulrich Dangel 31 Mär '10

31 Mär '10

grml-quickconfig currently always shows its menu until q or enter is pressed. This means if you just start to write a text, or press a cursor key after booting you will see multiple time grml-quickconfig. After booting grml now several times i would like to change the grml-quickconfig behavior to exit immediately if a wrong key is pressed. What do you think? Keep the current behavior or change it? Please try it on our rc1 <http://download.grml.org/devel/> Thanks, Ulrich

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booting grml squashfs from a hard disk
by Marc Haber 28 Mär '10

28 Mär '10

Hi, I need to do something I didn't do for years: booting grml from a hard disk without findiso and/or isofrom (since both options don't seem to work when the disk is /dev/cciss/c0d0p1). I tried many times with different boot options, but the boot invariably stops at the "Searching for GRML file, this might take a few seconds" and dumps me to a shell after a few minutes. What are the parameters needed to point grml directly to the squashfs file? I think that this: menuentry "grml64-medium" { insmod ext2 set root=(hd0,1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 612d104f-2721-4b2a-93d4-69acac9cacd4 linux /grml/grml64-2009.10/boot/grml64medium/linux26 quiet lang=de boot=live noeject noprompt keyboard=de live-media-path=/grml/grml64-2009.10/live/ toram=/grml/grml64-2009.10/live/grml64-medium.squashfs nodhcp myconfig=/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 scripts=boot/grml/network.sh serial console=ttyS0,115200n8 initrd /grml/grml64-2009.10/boot/grml64medium/initrd.gz } is correct for this directory layout: /boot/grml/ /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10 /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/cdrom.ico /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/GRML /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/GRML/index.html /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/GRML/images /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/GRML/images/favicon.png /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/GRML/images/button.png /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/GRML/images/logo.png /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/GRML/images/linux.jpg /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/GRML/grml-version /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/GRML/md5sums /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/GRML/README.txt /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/GRML/style.css /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/GRML/grml-cheatcodes.txt /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/GRML/LICENSE.txt /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/autorun.pif /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/live /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/live/filesystem.module /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/live/grml64-medium.squashfs /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/autorun.bat /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/autorun.inf /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/boot /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/boot/grml64medium /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/boot/grml64medium/initrd.gz /boot/grml/grml64-2009.10/boot/grml64medium/linux26 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 is mounted to /boot in the running Debian system that I use to install the grml. Exchanging toram=/grml/grml64-2009.10/live/grml64-medium.squashfs against toram=grml64-medium.squashfs doesn't work either. What am I doing wrong here? Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 3221 2323190

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Release Candidate 1 of Grml 2010.04 available
by Michael Prokop 26 Mär '10

26 Mär '10

Hi! We have new release candidates: the first release candidate of version 2010.04 codename "Grmlmonster" is available! Take a look at the release announcement for details about all the cool new features: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2010.04/ As usual we have different flavours available: the 32bit versions grml, grml-medium and grml-small as well as the 64bit versions grml64, grml64-medium and grml64-small. Please test the ISOs and all the stuff you usually need so we can provide rocking stable releases soon. The stable release is scheduled for begin of april. Download the ISOs from the 'devel' directory of the mirrors listed at http://grml.org/download/ Happy hacking and have fun with Grml! regards, -mika-

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grml 2009.10: strange behavior of networking script?
by Peter Mattern 26 Mär '10

26 Mär '10

Hello. Booting grml on a machine connected by cable to a LAN comprising a DHCP-Server brings up two interfaces, lo and eth0. Both are included in /etc/network/interfaces by means of the "auto" stanza and work just as one would expect. If I prompt # invoke-rc.d networking stop nothing seems to happen. According to ifconfig, both interfaces remain up and the network is still available. If this command is repeated two more times using start and stop as argument, eth0 will be brought down while lo remains up. From now on, invoke-rc.d start|stop will bring eth0 up / down every time it gets invoked with the respective argument. Btw., there's the very same behavior if I prompt /etc/init.d/networking instead of invoke-rc.d networking What I'd actually expect, is invoke-rc.d networking stop to bring down eth0 already the first time. At least, this behavior can be seen on Debian. Thus, I'm way confused. Is something going wrong here? Am I missing something? Anything else? Thanks in advance, Peter Mattern

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Set resolution of grml-small in Virtualbox
by Peter Falter 19 Mär '10

19 Mär '10

Oh... it doesnt depend on the kernel version. My second VM with grml 2009.10 kernel 2.6.31 only had the first time started a /dev/fb0 and a decent screenresolution. After grml2hd and reboot i put vga=792 by hand in the grub2 commandline - not in a grub configuaration file! - manually by hand! - there is no /dev/fb0, screen is small. So please help me, how do i configure a working framebuffer? Thanx ;-)

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Set resolution of grml-small in Virtualbox
by Peter Falter 12 Mär '10

12 Mär '10

Hi folks, i am constrained to use M$ XP in a training course, but allowed to have Virtualbox. So i took a daily snapshot with debian/sid flavour, 2.6.33 kernel, started succesfully, installed to HD and booted several times. I am not able to change the screenresolution by kernel commandline vga=792. I downloaded 2009.10 too, it starts with vga=791 and the size looks good. Ah: 1) daily snapshot ls -l /dev/fb* -> no such device 2) 2009.10 ls -l /dev/fb* -> /dev/fb0 Looks like 2.6.33 gives me no framebuffer device. Can you help me to get a decent screensize?

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Probleme, und kein Licht
by Thomas Schmidt 10 Mär '10

10 Mär '10

Hi! Situation: Ich starte qemu auf der Konsole mit: qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -hda /mnt/7/qemu/Platte.img -smp 2 -m 1024 -cdrom /dev/cdrom -soundhw sb16 -net nic,vlan=0 -net user,vlan=0,hostname=emu -k de -monitor stdio -boot d Bochs BIOS 1.206 1) Standardinstallation mit qemu: Keine Probleme bis jetzt. 2) GRML bootoperation: in RAM laden *Installation hängt ca. jedes zweite Mal *grml-x versagt immer (fluxbox) (existierendes X am Wirtssystem), grml stibt sofort.(außer in einem Terminal unter X) Tastatur ist dann nicht funktionsfähig *grml holt sich bei der Netzkonfiguration alles von qemu, irgendwie nicht so gut Fragen: Erkennt grml64 Hello-Wien nicht -k de von qemu? (Das ist schon rätselhaft, weil die Netzkonfiguration sehr wohl übernommen wird) Wie gibt man grml Parameter mit? qemu kannn das nicht und tut das nicht. Wer hat am squashfs ausgearbeitet für grml?? Gibt es Interesse an überarbeitetem deutschem Buch zu qemu? Für weitere Auskünfte und Mitarbeit stehe ich gern zur Verfügung :-) mit freundlichen Grüßen. _______________________________________________ Grml-devel mailing list Grml-devel(a)ml.grml.org http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml-devel

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trying to replace console-tools with kbd
by John Magolske 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

To set the font in my framebuffer console, I'd like to use kbd, as the consolechars command that comes with console-tools seems to only work with 8-pixel wide fonts [1]. I find `consolechars -f` is unable to load a majority of the fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts. A while back on an earlier grml (don't recall exactly which version), I replaced console-tools with kbd and was then able to load any font in /usr/share/consolefonts using the setfont command. Now (grml2008.11 installed to hd) when I try to install kbd, aptitude wants to remove grml, grml-autoconfig & grml2hd [2]. I don't need grml2hd, but removal of grml is problematic, as this in turn tries to remove lots of other things as well. Is there a recommended way to replace console-tools with kbd? TIA for any help, John * [1] --- In these two cases the fonts loaded fine: /usr/share/consolefonts % consolechars -f koi8-14.psf.gz /usr/share/consolefonts % consolechars -f Lat7-Terminus16.psf.gz But in this case, got an error: /usr/share/consolefonts % consolechars -f Lat7-Terminus24x12.psf.gz Cannot (yet) load a non-seekable RAW file read_simple_font(): Invalid argument Tried uncompressing the font file & loading that: /usr/share/consolefonts % consolechars -f Lat7-Terminus24x12_gunzipped.psf read_simple_font(): Bad font file format [2] --- 34507 ~ % sudo aptitude install kbd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are BROKEN: grml-autoconfig kbd-compat The following NEW packages will be installed: kbd The following packages will be REMOVED: console-tools{a} 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1432 not upgraded. Need to get 423kB of archives. After unpacking 610kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: grml-autoconfig: Depends: console-tools but it is not installable kbd-compat: Depends: console-tools (>= 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1) but it is not installable Conflicts: kbd but 1.15-1 is to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: grml grml-autoconfig grml2hd kbd-compat Score is 322 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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grml-debootstrap problems
by Michael Whapples 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Hello, I am trying to install debian using grml-debootstrap but I get an error about it not finding MAKEDEV. I retried but adding the makedev package to /etc/debootstrap/packages but it still fails with the error. Infact it seems like the packages in /etc/debootstrap/packages are not being installed (eg. what is left in the mount point doesn't contain zsh either or commands related to other packages I try and add). This is just using the standard grml 2009.10 CD. It has just occurred to me, I never do anything to update packages on the CD first, was there a problem with the grml-debootstrap on the 2009.10 CD? Michael Whapples

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Announce: Grml developer mailinglist
by Michael Prokop 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Hi, I just wanted to inform you that we have a new mailinglist - the Grml developer mailinglist: http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml-devel We will discuss issues related to development of Grml on this mailinglist. Anyone is allowed to subscribe to the mailinglist. Sending mails to the list is limited to members of the mailinglist to avoid Spam (though we've a moderation queue for non-members so mails shouldn't get lost in any case). So please feel free to join the discussions, patch reviews and coordination of development on the mailinglist. If you have any patches or need feedback from Grml developers feel free to mail them directly to the developer mailinglist. PS: The Grml *user* mailinglist isn't affected by this change itself. We just want to give contributors the possibility to discuss issues with us on a central place, though without annoying users that aren't interested in development. Happy hacking! regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc

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Boot managers and grml-debootstrap
by Michael Whapples 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Hello, If I were to use grml-debootstrap to install a debian system what are my options for boot managers? I normally prefer to install the boot manager in the partition but I believe grub2 doesn't support this. So is there a way for me to install grub-legacy or lilo when using grml-debootstrap or is there a way to get grub2 to install to the partition? Michael Whapples

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GRML64-bit Accessibility and Cheatcode questions
by Keith Hinton 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hi all, I was curious if GRML64 is accessible to users with blind disabilities by default, as in the 32-bit world of GRML. Secondly, I had a question: While the newer splash menu works niecly for a person with sight, that new menu servs little use for me. How do I go back to the standard boot prompt without the fancey menu before typing "grml swspeak" (without quotes) at the boot of the CD? I am just curious what I can do. If you have suggestions/other considerations, please contact me ASAP. Thanks all for your great work. Please keep up the great work on GRML. Regards, --Keith

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jmicron network card driver installation fails
by Grischa 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

hi there, I'm running grml with a 2.6.26 kernel on an asus eee box b202 which has unfortunately a JMicron network card. I want to install the driver (ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmc2xx/) manually because the driver is not included. As mentioned in the readme .txt I did: apt-get install linux-source-$(uname -r) apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) apt-get install build-essential After 'make install' I got the following error: make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.26-grml/build: No such file or directory. Stop. make: *** [all] Error 2 Any suggestions? By the way I'm trying this on a virtual machine because with the same grml image (because the asus eee box has no internet connection :) ) Thanks a lot in advance! Best, Grischa

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