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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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