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grml-crypt on grml.org please
by T o n g 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Hi mika, I found that the grml-crypt man page is not on the grml.org (yet), as oppose to other grml helpful tools, eg, grml-live, grml2usb/hd, grml- debootstrap, etc. If it's on, then it'll be easier for me to refer people to it, after saying "Linux disk encryption in 4 commands with grml-crypt". :-) thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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grml custom installation on 1GB USB device ?
by Sven Crouse 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Hi grml. My computer has a no-award bios which suffers from problems booting USB-HDD devices. As I can tell I'm limited to a single 1GB partition although iso images installed via dd do boot. Currently I have a usb device which boots kernel with an initramfs ( embedded ) that activates raid ( metadata=1.2 ) and lvm on mirrored sata drives that contain root partition. I would like to replace this initramfs that contains little sysadmin functionality with grml and see a few options of how to realize: 1-grml persistency, but I think my bios constrains will make it difficult to do iso leaving ~300MB enough for home-rw, live-rw, and GRMLCFG ? 2-customizing an existing grml iso image to include a default grub entry that mounts root=/dev/md0 with a fallback to grml ? Other ways or suggestions ? Sven

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EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled
by Sven Crouse 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Hi GRML. I appreciate your system, have been using since 2008. Recently learned about persistency which I plan to use to replace custom initramfs for booting & maintenance of RAID1/LVM2 systems containing root partitions. I just finished migrating Gentoo from single partition to mirrored ( RAID1 ) and LVM2 volumes. In the process, I learned/realized that the Ext3 filesystems contained within raid/volume group are not enabling write barriers despite being told by fstab to do so. This is 2.6.36 kernel with lvm2 version 2.02.73. I thought to try to grml 2010.12 as well, but problem remains. My question: is there any magic "Start" besides mdadm-raid, lvm that should be necessary ? We can otherwise mount partitions without incident. Does somebody have ext3 barriers enabled by default such that I know it should be realized with 2010.12 ? Appreciatively, Sven

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Is nss-ldap missing from grml 2010.04 ?
by jonty 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Hi All, I have been using grml for the last couple of months. I am building a network of about 20 machines, all running grml, and I want them to share a single set of login names and passwords. So I decided to configure OpenLDAP as a service on one machine and configure the other machines to find login+password from this service. I am following the instructions set out at: http://wiki.debian.org/LDAP/NSS http://www.debian-administration.org/article/585/OpenLDAP_installation_on_D… They suggest I use libnss-ldap. But this package seems to be missing from my copy of grml 2010.04. I have also checked the package list for 2010.12 and that does not contain libnss-ldap. This seems a strange omission from grml. It contains slapd to run the service and several clients such as freeradius-ldap, libnet-ldap-perl, postfix-ldap, and smbldap-tools. So why not libnss-ldap? I could install libnss-ldap on each client machine. But then I have to repeat those same steps on 20 machines, which makes it 20 times more likely I will make a mistake somewhere. I tried "apt-get install libnss-ldap" on a test machine. This started updating libc-bin and installing locales, which seemed a good way of breaking the distro. Can anyone suggest a better approach? Should I remaster the CD? Is there some gmrl magic I am missing? Is there a different tool for login+password that is not ldap? Thanks Jonty

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Grml 2010.12 released
by Michael Prokop 31 Dez '10

31 Dez '10

Hi Grml fans, on behalf of the Grml team I'm proud to announce a new stable release: Grml 2010.12 with codename "Gebrüder Grml", available in flavours grml, grml-medium and grml-small and all of them as 32bit and 64bit version has been released. The official release announcement has all the details: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2010.12/ Issues regarding the new release can be found in the grml-wiki at: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_2010.12 As usual you can get the ISO(s) from: http://grml.org/download/ Enjoy the new release and happy new year! 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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Release Candidate 0 of Grml 2010.12 available
by Michael Prokop 21 Dez '10

21 Dez '10

Hi! We are proud to announce the first release canidate of the upcoming version 2010.12 codename "Gebrüder Grml"! For detailed information about the changes between 2010.04 and 2010.12 have a look at: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2010.12-rc0/ 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. Known issues can be found at: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=release_candidate Please test the ISOs and all the stuff you usually need and report back - so we can provide stable releases soon. The stable release is scheduled for end of december. Download the ISOs from our newly designed(!) download webpage at http://grml.org/download/prerelease/ Happy hacking and have fun with Grml! regards, -mika- - in the name of the Grml team

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root-FS readonly after grml2hd
by Tobias Walkowiak 15 Dez '10

15 Dez '10

I just installed latest grml64 sid vi grml2hd and after rebooting from disk /-filesystem ist mounted readonly. Tried it with several combinations of filesystem and bootloader but always the same effect. Any ideas? The boot-option in /etc/fstab says error=remount-ro but there are no errors in dmesg with the harddisk. Tobias -- Tobias Walkowiak grml(a)count0.net

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mdadm error during boot
by Grischa 15 Dez '10

15 Dez '10

Hi there, I installed grml to my harddisk and I'm getting a small error during every boot: "mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically Mount failed for selinuxfs on /selinux: no such file or directory" I don't know how to fix this. Any suggestions? How do I deactivate the software RAID? Best, Grischa

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Boot from iso option not working with grub2
by Theodotos Andreou 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Guys I want to have a grml small iso under the /boot/iso partition in Debian 6.0 with Grub2. My config in /boot/grub/grub.cfg is: menuentry 'grml' { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root=(hd0,msdos1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set <uuid> echo 'Loading GRML Small' loopback loop (hd0,0)/iso/grml-small_2010.04.iso echo 'Loading Kernel' linux (loop)/boot/grmlsmall/linux26 boot=live vga=791 noeject noprompt echo 'Loading ramdisk' initrd (loop)/boot/grmlsmall/initrd.gz } When I boot I get: "error: cannot read the Linux header" Any idea what am i doing wrong? Theo

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grml, the No-Frills Linux Rescue CD--USB
by Richard Hartmann 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi joe, in your article [1], you mention current grml not recognizing your keyboard. Can you give us any more information so we can look at the issue? Please keep the list CC'ed in your replies. Thanks, Richard [1] http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7224/2/

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