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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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