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update-initramfs kernel upgrade
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 12 Okt '09

12 Okt '09

Hello, i want to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.31. So i upgrade my grml on my external usb-harddisk as follows: 1. strat grml 2. edit /etc/apt/sources-list and set the germl and debian to unstable 3. aptitude dist-upgrade 4. install the kernel 2.6.31-grml wth this modules as described in an earlier mail from mika 5. update-initramfs -c -t -k 2.6.31-grml 6 starting from dos with linld097 image=vml2631 initrd=i2631.gz "cl=root=/ dev/sda5 speakup.(or _)synth=apollo blind nodhpc vga=normal" But the system will not start. If i unpack the initrd-file, i did not found the speakup-modules. What must i do to become speakup to work with my apollo-synthesizer? Regards Dietmar

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My DHCP client isn't started automatically anymore
by Hermann 12 Okt '09

12 Okt '09

Hi, since a safe-upgrade on 08.10.09, dhclient3 does not start automatically anymore. I use a router )Fritzbox), which is connected via USB to my machine. The hardware gets detected properly, and I have activated DHCP on the Fritzbox. The internal IP has not changed. Reconfiguring the network via grml-config results in turning on the client, but specifying the startup of dhclient at boot, fails. Although I answer this question with "yes", the client doesn't start with the boot procedure. The config script exits with code 1 shown at the prompt, but there are no error messages on the screen. The only thing that works is to include the networking script into the startup procedure by: update-rc.d networking defaults This was not necessary before. The client's binary has the date of 05.10.09, although the problems came up yesterday. I include the contents of my /etc/network/interfaces here: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp Any hints? Hermann

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Boot loaders
by Michael Whapples 07 Okt '09

07 Okt '09

Hello, In the past I have always used lilo for my boot loader, partly due to lilo being the first boot loader I learnt and so never really gave much time to learn grub and partly due to having knowledge on how to get the boot loader screen of lilo to beep when it appears (information on the GRML wiki about accessibility). Last night I came across one of the problems with lilo and I believe grub might be able to solve this. The problem was that the GRML kernel I am running (2.6.31-grml) was updated by apt in an upgrade. I forgot to run lilo before rebooting and so my system became impossible to boot from the HD. At some point in the past my BIOS settings had been lost and so my CD drive is now on a lower priority than the HD for booting (not being able to see, I can't use the BIOS by myself to correct the BIOS boot order, so I had no way to correct the problem). I believe grub allows the user to enter a command at the boot screen and so boot any device (not quite sure where I have seen this but I think it may even have been here). My questions: 1. Am I right about grub being able to accept commands at the boot screen allowing booting of anything (even if it isn't in the menu list)? 2. Is it possible to get the grub boot screen to beep like the lilo one as described in the accessibility information on the GRML wiki? 3. Have you got any extra reasons you would suggest changing to grub from lilo or is there a different boot manager you would suggest? Michael Whapples

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grml for powerpc
by Chaitat Piriyastit 06 Okt '09

06 Okt '09

Hi, Is there an available version for PowerPC yet? I have just bought a used PowerBook G4 and I am willing to use GRML. -- Chaitat Piriyasatit ... waking up to pee and see whats up online

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rxvt on grml_2009.05
by Chaitat Piriyastit 03 Okt '09

03 Okt '09

Hi pals, I have just installed grml_2009.05 on vmware on macosx. Yeah, it's awesome as always. Thanks so much, the grml team. You just make me addicted to grml already. I have one problem (or it may not be a problem) with rxvt. I grml-x wmii. I then "alt+p => rxvt". I get a weird rxvt (for me). It opens up an rxvt with some tab/menu on the top most of rxvt window. It runs in as if it is in a floating window although my wmii should make it in a tiled way. I can't even make it active on rxvt window which simply means I can't use it. Is there anything wrong? Thanks, -- Chaitat Piriyasatit ... waking up to pee and see whats up online

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GoogleEarth stürzt ab
by Ch. Hanisch 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Hallo, obwohl grml dafür nicht gemacht ist, frage ich mich doch, warum die GoogleEarth-Installation out of the box in /opt nach dem Startbildschirm sich verabschiedet. ... Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Google Earth has caught signal 11. We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed. This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal circumstances. A bug report and debugging data have been written to this text file: ~/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4ac25fc2.txt Please include this file if you submit a bug report will to Google. Bei der Installation war folgende Meldung aufgefallen: Loci-Setup: Verdächtiger Größenwert für Option option Wie kann man dem abhelfen? Gruß Ch. Hanisch

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3. upgrade from 2.6.23 to 2.6.28
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Hello Mika, i have spend a lot of time, but it will not work for me to upgrade from 2.6.23-grml to 2.6.28-grml. So another question. I want to use my installed grml on a asus eepc 1005ha-m. I have search via google and found some hints to use kernels greater 2.6.30. which of the daily builds will use such an kernel and can i upgrade the distro via changing the settings in /etc/apt/source-list and a aptitude dist-upgrade ???? Regards Dietmar

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upgrade from kernel 2.6.23 to 2.6.28
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Hello Mika, thanks for your answer. I have done a update-iniramfs -c -t -k 2.6.28-grml After that i started the kernel with this initrd from dos (i allways start from dos with linld097.com. The kernel loads and stand than in the initramfs. I did not hear any output from my apollo synthesizer (boot-option speakup_synth=apollo). I have unpacked the initrd.img-2.6.28-grml and looked for the speakup- modules, but he modules are not in the initrd.img-2.6.28-grml. On the system the modules are in /lib/modules/2.6.28-grml/extra/speakup/ How can i add this modules? Unpacking with gzip -dc initrd.img-2.6.28-grml | cpio -i copy the extra folder into the 2.6.28-grml directory and then find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 >initrd.img-2.6.28-grml will produce a new initrd, but speakup will not work and the system will not boot. How can i do a depmode for the not running kernel 2.6.28-grml? thanks for your help. Regards Dietmar

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from kernel 2.6.23 to 2.6.28
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Hello, i use the 2.6.23-grml-kernel on my system. I want to upgrade the kernel to version 2.6.28-grml. If i do: aptitude install linux-image-2.6.28-grml only this package will be downloaded and installed, but no drivers from grml. How can i upgrade the kernel with all the grml-modules of the 2.6.28 kernel? Thanks for your help Regards. Dietmar

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Boot question from a newbie
by Øyvind Lode 19 Sep '09

19 Sep '09

Hello all: How can I boot a GRML installation from the Live CD? I have a GRML installation on the 3rd partition. When running from the Live CD the partition is identified as /dev/sda3. I did not want to install the boot loader to the MBR of /dev/sda so I installed LILO to /dev/sda3.

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Grml Medium on Acer Aspire AS5536
by T o n g 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hi, This is a report of things don't work on an Acer Aspire AS5536. http://us.acer.com/acer/productv.do? LanguageISOCtxParam=en&kcond61e.c2att101=57644&sp=page16e&ctx2.c2att1=25&link=ln438e&CountryISOCtxParam=US&ctx1g.c2att92=447&ctx1.att21k=1&CRC=1731859535 ............................................................................ Is X running at the correct resolution? Not sure, since xwininfo is not installed. but xrandr reports wrong resolution. 3-D Acceleration? Probably not, since glxinfo is not available/installed. Does the trackpad work? Partially. * Does it move the mouse pointer? Yes * Does the right hand side emulate a mouse scroll wheel? No * Does the trackpad single click, click & hold work? No Does the sound work? Yes, the speaker-test works. Does pressing the volume hotkeys raise, lower and mute volume? Yes for raise, lower volume -- there is dialog appearing on screen showing the current volume. But mute doesn't work. Does pressing the sleep button cause the machine to sleep? No Is CPU frequency scaling supported? No sudo invoke-rc.d powernowd start shows the error required sysfs object not found. ............................................................................ The most important thing to note is that, all above things don't work under Grml Medium works fine out of box in Unbunto. Most of them are fundamental features, IMHO. Hope that future Grml Medium may include some of the above fundamental features. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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asus eeePC 1005HA and grml
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

Hello, does the grml run on asus eeepc 1005ha? Regards Dietmar

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GRML always writes a core file when shutting down/rebooting
by Hermann 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hi, when I shut down/reboot my system, I get a core file written in /. Since this is happening repeatedly, there is a pretty large amount of drive space wasted. Can anyone confirm/reproduce this behavior, and does anybody know what causes this? How can I stop this? Hermann --

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Having a way to set default X session manager
by Michael Whapples 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hello, Currently when GRML is installed to HD it creates the user home directory with a .xinitrc file with a window manager (looking closer at alternatives it seems this really should be called x session manager). This makes it impossible for a system wide default window manager to be set. I remember that slackware offered a feature where a default system window manager could be set and such a feature would be useful in GRML. Obviously should a user want to use something other than the default then they can do so by running grml-x or manually create the ~/.xinitrc file. Would it be possible to add such a feature? Michael Whapples

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Call for help: grmlzshrc.5
by Frank Terbeck 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hello grml users! You are probably aware of the fact that grml ships a pretty big zsh setup. It is quite likely, though, that nobody - including us developers - knows every function, keybinding or feature the setup implements. That's why a manpage was started for it in order to create a reference manual about the setup. A reference card for the zshrc exists already, but that is rather brief due to... well being a reference card. The basic skeleton for the manpage is ready. I described a few features and began a reference section. However. Writing a complete reference for our setup is a big and tedious task. I personally don't use the setup myself, which doesn't exactly help matters either... And there are still numerous functions, aliases, variables and options, that need to be documented. So, to cut a long story short: Help!1!! :-) No, seriously. If you are interested in helping writing that manual, please contact us at: grml-etc-core(a)grml.org ...so we can coordinate the work (and possibly avoid doubled work if a lot of people are willing to help). Every little bit would help, so don't be shy. :) In order to get a local version of the repository that keeps track of the manual do this: % git clone git://git.grml.org/grml-etc-core.git % cd grml-etc-core % git co -b zshrc5 origin/ft/zshrc5 % cd doc After that you'll see a file called grmlzshrc.t2t which is the markup source of the manpage. The markup language used is txt2tags and the needed package is just one 'aptitude install txt2tags' away. It's a pretty minimal language, that is quite easy to use - the existing content will give you a very good idea of how to achieve different things using txt2tags. To generate roff (the man-format in a .5 file) and html versions of the manual (to see what your changes look like) just run 'make' in the doc subdirectory. If you can spare a few minutes of your time to contribute, please send us a message to the aforementioned address and we'll see how to go on from there. Thanks for reading all the way down here. :) Regards, Frank - on behalf of the grml team. PS: A pretty recent generation of the html output can be seen here: <http://ft.bewatermyfriend.org/tmp/grmlzshrc.html> -- In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- RFC 1925

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grml install on SD card
by wonderer 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hy, I want to do the HDInstall to a SD Card wich is inserted in a eeePC901 SD-Card Slot. When I boot up from an USB-Stick with the grml Live-Image and choose HDInstall all seems to be Ok. But after reboot grml always failed to load (no OS found). I also tryed to install the bootmanager into partition /dev/sdd1 and MBR of /dev/sdd but no effekt. The internal SSD I do not want to have edited with the bootmanager. If I look on the SD-Card there seem to be all files. Is there a way that this could run? best regards Henrik

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hardware requirements?
by Jutta Zalud 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hi! I wonder about the hardware requirements for grml and couldn't find anything in the wiki and in the mailinglist-archive so far. The reason why I am wondering is, because I have a very old laptop (IBM Thinkpad 600E, Mobile Pention II, 228 MB RAM) on which I tride to run the live CD and failed so far. There is always the same error: IO APIC resources could not be allocated. RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 4194304 invalid compressed format (err=1) Kernel panic- not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(253,0 Other live CDs work, though: Knoppix 3.7 (*not* 3.8), Sidux Chaos (dated February 2007) and even Ubuntu 9.4 Desktop. Any idea if I could make it work and how? On my more recent Ideapad S10e it boots perfectly but it seems that the built-in WLAN is not recognized (the Windows device manager says it is a Broadcom Device, I'll try to find out more) Regards, Jutta

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Help, hilfe, how can i restore..
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hello, Hallo, i need some help. I have delete a directory of my /home directory with a lot of data. Einfacher ist es für mich in deutsch zu beschreiben, was passiert ist, Sorry. Meine grml-Installation ließ sich booten, beim Booten wurde mit einer Fehlermeldung, dass der Superblock fehle, eine maintenance-shell gestartet. Da ich in einem /home Verzeichnis wichtige Daten hatte, habe ich den Rechner runtergefahren und grml vom usb-stick gestartet und die Partition /dev/hdb7 (auf der das grml installiert ist) gemontet. Warum auch immer, ich habe nach dem Mounten das Verzeichnis /home/volksbank gelöscht, anstatt es zu kopieren und zu sichern. Die Partition /dev/hdb7 habe ich seitdem nicht mehr benutzt, keine Daten darauf geschrieben, bzw. das grml-System von dieser Partition gestartet. Wie kann ich das Verzeichnis /vhome/volksbank und dessen Unterverzeichnisse und Dateien wiederherstellen? Ich bin mir nicht sicher ob ich die Partition /dev/hdb7 als ext2 formatiert habe, wie kann ich das herausfinden? Vielen Dank für Eure Hilfe und das Verständnis, dass ich hier mein Problem in deutsch beschrieben habe. MFG Dietmar Segbert

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suggested re-work of myconfig, GRMLCFG, config, debs and scripts
by Marc Haber 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Hi, this is what I recently filed in the BTS as issue715, and mika said that it may be a good idea to discuss my suggestion here as well. The interaction between GRMLCFG, myconfig, scripts, debs and config is incredibly byzantine to me. It has clearly grown, but I'd like to have some more features which would be available by a re-work of the semantics. I would like to see the following behavior implemented: - debs, config and scripts are always searched and read from the same place ($dcs-dir). Which place this is varies, depending on GRMLCFG, noautoconfig and myconfig. - debs are searched in $dcs-dir/debs. If debs=foo is given, foo is taken as a shell wildcard for the debs being installed, paths are allowed and relative to $dcs-dir. - config archives (config.tbz) are searched directly in $dcs-dir. If config=foo is given and foo is a file, that file is unpacked and its content taken as configuration archive. If config=foo is given and foo is a directory, the contents of the directory tree is copied over the live CD configuration. paths are allowed and relative to $dcs-dir - scripts are searched in $dcs-dir/scripts. If scripts=foo is given and foo is a file, that file is executed. If scripts=foo is given and foo is a directory, all files inside that directory are executed. Paths are allowed and relative to $dcs-dir. - If no GRMLCFG partition is found and noautoconfig is _not_ given on the command line, nothing is changed and the dcs files are searched within the .iso, $dcs-dir is set to the root directory within the .iso - If a GRMLCFG partition is found, $dcs-dir is set to the root of the GRMLCFG partition unless noautoconfig is set. If noautoconfig is set, $dcs-dir is set to the root directory within the .iso. - If myconfig=foo is set on the command line, $dcs-dir is set to foo, even if a GRMLCFG partition is present. I tried to craft this new behavior not to break mainstream configurations while some more exotic schemes now need different handling. It also has the advantage of having similiar definitions for scrips, debs and config which will probably allow some code to be re-used for all three cases. Please indicate whether you find this behavior acceptable and desireable. If this new behavior would break a setup you use, please say so as well. I believe this new behavior can be implemented alone by changing /etc/init.d/grml-autoconfig and/or /etc/grml/autoconfig.functions. 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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Network booting, Terminal Server or PXE
by T o n g 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Hi Mika, Just out of curiosity, how do you compare Terminal Server and PXE? I knew the term "Terminal Server" when I knew grml, and only within the grml community. The outside world seems to be interested in PXE instead. So I like to know the reason behind why grml chose Terminal Server over PXE. Here are the homeworks I've done: The only "Terminal Server" I found on the web seems to related with KNOPPIX http://knoppix.manty.net/ http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/KNOPPIX_Terminal_Server But the original author of the wiki document, Rjent, has moved his efforts to working on something else. PXE is backed by Intel and is part of Intels(tm) Wired for Management (WfM) http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/PXE_FAQ The Linux Magazine has written a good article about 'Network Booting' http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1179 Tim Kientzle Tuesday, October 15th, 2002 in which Tim recommended PXE. Thanks PS. For those PC that has Network booting built-in capability in ROM, are they booting PXE or Terminal Server or something else? PPS. The reason that I'm asking, its very easy to test PXE booting in KVM... -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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installing grml onto hard drive
by Don Raikes 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

Hello, I am just getting started with grml as of today. I am blind, and would like to install grml onto my hard drive. I downloaded the latest iso image: grml_2009.05.iso After looking at teh menu.lst file, it looks like I need to specify that I use teh grml-hd menu option, but I need to add the brltty and ppossibly speakup parameters to teh kernel, and I am not quite sure how to do that. My second alternative would be to install grml from teh running liveCD once I get brltty and speakup running successfully. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

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Persistency on grml
by T o n g 12 Jul '09

12 Jul '09

Hi mika, Thanks you for your detailed wiki: Persistency on grml http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=persistency I got it working after following your detailed instructions. However, I found that you've mixed the two cases. The wiki should read: To use the persistency feature you need * either a writeable partition with label 'live-rw' * or execute the command 'live-snapshot' then follow the instructions. I.e., both method can get you the persistent feature, but either one is enough. you don't need both. For 'live-rw' partition, checking whether the live snapshot is included by running 'mount | grep live-snapshot' does not apply, Moreover, if you have a writeable partition with label 'live-rw', then having another 'home-rw' one is not necessary unless you want to. cheers -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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OT: memory info
by Josh Lawrence 09 Jul '09

09 Jul '09

Marked OT just in case :) I need to get more RAM for my computer at home, but the RAM isn't labeled for type, speed etc. Is there a command in Linux and/or grml that will give me this information? Thank you, Josh -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com

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OT: Downloading the .deb package
by T o n g 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Hi, How to download the .deb file for a package? $ aptitude download linux-image-2.6.28-grml64 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Unable to find an archive "grml" for the package "linux-image-2.6.28- grml64" What's wrong? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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