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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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Remove dmraid package from GRML?
by Eric Thirolle 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

I noticed the following error printed to console during bootup of my custom GRML Live CD: modprobde: module dm-raid45 not found in modules.dep I did a bit of research into this module, and found it is called "dmraid" in the Debian package repositories. This package is available for wheezy/jessie, but not installed by default. However, "dmraid" *is* included in GRML's FAI classes: # grep -R dmraid /etc/grml/fai/* /etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRML_XL:dmraid /etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRML_MEDIUM:dmraid /etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRML_SMALL:dmraid /etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRML_FULL:dmraid The dmraid package is responsible for support for so-called "ATARAID", which is RAID for IDE drives provided by a number of old hardware RAID cards (details here: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/dmraid & https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ataraid&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD… ). Given how old this RAID driver is... should dmraid be removed from the GRML FAI classes? Or is there something else that needs to be done to correct the "module dm-raid45 not found in modules.dep" error on the custom Live CD? Thanks! Eric

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grmlfull-32 2014.11
by David Hare 04 Dez '14

04 Dez '14

Trying out grmlfull-32 2014.11 iso as a virtualbox guest. On two different machines (one wheezy, intel core2, 2GB RAM .. another jessie, intel core2, 1GB RAM) In both cases it hangs at "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated..." I have seen the bug report for udev but thought it was fixed. A few lines above is a suggestion to boot with "noudev". Trying that gives errors "could not open /dev/tty1" repeated for other ttys .. then "could not chown/chmod tty device" ad infinitum. Using "serial console" option boots to a prompt but freezes after X has started (static mouse cursor) Any ideas what is wrong? I have tried also the "-small" and "daily build" versions with the same result. No hardware immediately available to try cd or usb.. Other iso's work fine here in VB.. *except* recent custom builds with jessie+sysvinit+util-linux_25x which also cannot open a tty. David Hare

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Own Rescue-CD based on grml
by Werner P. Schulz 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Last weeks I worked again on remaster grml http://www.wp-schulz.de/rescue-cd-mit-grml.html Perhaps it may be useful for some of us. Greetings Werner

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Grml - new stable release 2014.11 available
by Michael Prokop 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

Hi, we just released Grml 2014.11 - Gschistigschasti This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA jessie). As usual it also incorporates up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release. More information is available in the release notes of Grml 2014.11: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2014.11/ Grab the latest Grml ISO(s) and spread the word! http://grml.org/download/ PS: Special thanks to Christian Hofstaedtler for helping us in solving a big release stopper caused by udev's net.agent on systems without systemd (AKA http://bugs.debian.org/754987 ) Thanks everyone and happy grml-ing, -mika-

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First Release Candidate of Grml version 2014.10 available
by Michael Prokop 31 Okt '14

31 Okt '14

Hi, so we did it again, the first release candidate of the upcoming Grml version 2014.10, code-named 'Gschistigschasti' was released. This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA jessie). As usual it also incorporates up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release. For detailed information about the changes between 2014.03 and 2014.10 have a look at the official release announcement: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2014.10-rc1/ Please test the ISOs and everything you usually use and report back so we can complete the stable release soon. If no major problems come up, the next iteration will be the stable release, which is scheduled for the end of October. Thanks to all contributors! regards, -mika- - for the Grml.org project

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Possible to run grml-debootstrap --vmfile inside docker?
by Patrick Schleizer 18 Okt '14

18 Okt '14

Hi! Was playing a bit with docker... ## On the host. modprobe dm-mod ## Made my own image. sudo apt-get install debootstrap sudo -E /usr/share/docker.io/contrib/mkimage.sh -t $USER/minbase debootstrap --variant=minbase stable ## Run a bash shell within. sudo docker run -i -t $USER/minbase /bin/bash ## Install modprobbe. apt-get install kmod ## Test modprobbe. modprobe dm-mod libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod.c:554 kmod_search_moddep: could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/3.16-2-amd64/modules.dep.bin' Which failed, which is what grml-debootstrap would do. And without dm-mod, also kpartx will fail. Cheers, Patrick

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GRML2USB encryption
by Charles Alan Hewson 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

Would it be practical to encrypt all of usb stick with grub2 modules? I have concerns about /boot on missing thumb drives. Charles

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