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grml2hd - Grml Hd Installation
by - Tong - 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Hi, I used to use grml2hd after booting off grml, but today I tried the grml2hd from the chroot. I think nobody has ever done this before. I'm just trying to see if I can get it working. If so, I could do the Grml HD installation then system customization from within my current system, so that I could have almost zero down time. Here are some issues/questions regarding grml2hd. - I think the document (http://grml.org/grml2hd/grml2hd.html) is not up-to-date with the script. E.g., I didn't find the switch "--noninteractive" documented. - I saw that the script is trying to duplicate the whole /dev directory. Is this still necessary? -- this is not a question but a request for explanation, because I thought udev would take care of populating the /dev directory on the fly. - now to the issue of using grml2hd from the chroot itself. It didn't work for me. It almost failed to copy over anything: cp: cannot stat `backups': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `boot': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `cdrom': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `dev': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `etc': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `floppy': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `home': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `initrd': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `lib': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `media': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `mnt': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `none': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `opt': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `root': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `sbin': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `selinux': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `swap': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `usr': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `var': No such file or directory UTSL reveals that it might cause by the 1st line, "cd /UNIONFS", in the copy_files function. Can we do something about it? I mean do something to make it chroot friendly? Further, my currently grml was first grml2hd'ed from grml ver0.7, and there is no /UNIONFS mount point or directory in my current system. I guess I can't use grml2hd to dupe my currently grml to another HD as well, can I? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Number of partitions for sata limitation lifted?
by - Tong - 26 Aug '07

26 Aug '07

Hi, A while back, I discussed the problem why Linux can only see 15 partitions on my sata HD. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/844/focus=847 Just now I saw there's a guy saikee puts 145 operating systems on 145 partitions. So I'm wondering if the limitation for the number of partitions for sata HD has been lifted or not in grml, or it is only justlinux that allows doing so. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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tomcat5.5 server on grml1.0 hd install?
by Lars Schimmer 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Another "silly" question: Has anyone installed tomcat5.5 on a grml HD install? I installed sun-java-sdk 6 and updated java alternatives. Afterwars I installed tomcat5.5 (-admin, -webapps). But instead of a running tomcat5.5 (like it is told in the man/Readme.DEBIAN), tomcat won't start at all and logfiles are empty :-/ MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer(a)cgv.tugraz.at Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGzqDwmWhuE0qbFyMRAiC/AJ9adt95iVsVC/X8I5ejVD4PIgpS1QCfS3se mqaSoPCv5IXca8D71V8MfBw= =pFKb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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xorg does not have extension for dpms option
by - Tong - 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Hi, My newly installed xorg doesn't support dpms any more: $ xset dpms force off server does not have extension for dpms option xset: unknown option force Which package should I install to get back the functionality? thanks PS my xorg: xserver-xorg: Installed: 1:7.1.0-16 -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Re: [Grml] Why does the speech system like to spell instead of readwords?
by Martin McCormick 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Michael Prokop writes: > No, that's not an option (due to maintenance and space reasons) for > us, sorry. Especially as speakup (which provides the speech feature) > does not work any longer with kernels >=2.6.22. Let's see what > future will bring us. I certainly understand. I did subscribe to the announcement list in case either a different speech engine is used or there is some other way that software speech becomes an option again in grml. In the mean time, it looks like the last Oralux disk works properly on the laptop in question but I sure would have rather used a Debian-based distribution since all my other Linux systems are pure Debian. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

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Problems booting GRML via fromhd
by Philipp Richter 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hi, We use GRML as rescue system on our machines. The /boot partition (which sits on a software raid1) of the main system includes the GRML-Kernel, initrd and squashfs so in case someone unintentionally removes libc6 or does some other bad things it's possible to recover the machine via the grml boot option in grub. the good thing is that this works if the /boot partition is on ide devices because the ide drivers are compiled into the kernel and the raid code in the kernel autostarts the raid. the bad thing: it doesn't work with our new dell boxes with mpt fusion controllers. the second problem here is that these boxes don't have ps/2 keyboard connectors and grml doesn't recognise the usb keyboard when it puts me into the rescue shell ... argh. here is what i did to fix these problems: - when grml loads the usb kernel modules it also tries to insmod usbhid.ko but this one has unknown symbols because ff-memless.ko has to be loaded first. so i copied ff-memless.ko to the initrd and added it to the list of usb.modules. cool. now i have a keyboard. - the next thing was that the sysfs-scsi-detection code did not find my fusion mpt controller. after reading /modules/scsi/scsi-modules.txt i knew why: because it was missing from there. after adding the entries for it i ended with a correctly detected controller but without a raid. how is the scsi-modules.txt file created? by hand? maybe it would be better to generate it from /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.{dep,pcimap} because in these files the mpt drivers where referenced ... - ok so after having the devices i needed to start the raid1 to access the filesystem. unfortunately there is no mdadm in the initrd image of grml so i had to compile a static version of mdadm and put it in /static. after this i added some code to assemble all arrays in case there exists a boot option fromhd=/dev/md* ok so now everything works. great! btw: grml is a really cool tool cheers, -- : Philipp Richter Tel +43-1-8178292-51 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com :

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VMware tools on grml guest OS
by Lars Schimmer 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I setup a grml 1.0 VMware server host system and a few grml 1.0 vmware guest systems til yet. But the time on the guest systems runs absolutely wrong, so I try to install the vmware-tools packages on the guests. I grabbed VMware workstation and grabbed VMwareTools-6.0.0-45731.tar.gz out of them. Now I try to install these tools on the guests systems with 2.6.20, but every kernel module fails to built. The any-any patch is just for the host, not for the guests. Anyone managed to built the vmware-tools kernel modules on grml 1.0 guests? MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer(a)cgv.tugraz.at Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGypclmWhuE0qbFyMRAhf+AJ0RdzV+IaBqaCWcAhc+/BTSdO9IYACffhH8 5emBIphKBopEiHYOOBBZbuY= =ELSa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Chroot using
by Frank Lehmann 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hello everybody, the other day I wanted to use "chroot" to access a XFS-partition (hda2) from grml, but it did not work. The failure notice was: "chroot: cannot run command '/bin/zsh': No such file or directory". True, zsh was not installed on the partition I tried to get chrooted - but is that necessary? And if yes, can I switch to another shell? (Entering the word "bash" before trying to chroot leads to the same result.) PS: Of course I am riding the "Meilenschwein"... :-) Thanks in advance, Frank

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Re: [Grml] Why does the speech system like to spell instead of readwords?
by Martin McCormick 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

"Tom Moore" writes: > The reason for Speakup spelling words has to do with the preempt kernel > option being turned on in the default Grml kernel. > If you compile a kernel with the Grml sources and turn this option off > this > will go away and Speakup will operate as you expect. I am quoting a message from the archives that was posted last March. I downloaded the live CD grml_1.0.iso image and am experiencing this very problem with software speech. Before reen venting any more wheels than necessary, is there any ISO image of this live CD that has the kernel compiled without the preempt option turned on? Does this, itself cause any other side effects? I am not afraid of building kernels but haven't built any ISO images before other than to use mkisofs to enshrine directories on a CDROM. Another idea might be to have 2 kernels on the live CD and boot from, say, grml or grml-alt. Judging from the present size of this image, there might not be enough room for that, but it is a thought. I tested the live CD on a Dell Enspiron2600 with a 1-gig Celeron CPU and 256-megs of RAM, and a ten-year-old Gateway Pentium with only 64 megs of ram and a 400-MHZ processor. Both had the spelling torture response and, surprisingly, both spoke at about the same speed. The Gateway probably would have worked just fine if not for the preemption issue. It probably wouldn't have had much memory left over for doing work with just the 64 megs. The laptop delivered little bursts of good speech and then lapsed in to slow spelling any time it was doing other work such as scrolling the screen. Thanks for any advice. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

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Upgrading Grml-Small0.4 HD install
by - Tong - 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Hi, Ever since I did 'apt-get upgrade' in my Grml-Small v0.4 HD install, I can't use 'shutdown now' or 'reboot' properly any more. E.g., reboot will complain that '/etc/init.d/grml-reboot' not found. I looked into the problem, learned that /etc/init.d/grml-reboot is from grml-etc, but I have grml-etc installed. Finally I found that somehow the 'apt-get upgrade' installed the '/etc/init.d/grml-reboot' file as '/etc/init.d/grml-reboot.dpkg-new'. I don't understand why apt-get/dpkg is doing this, ie, deliberately breaking my working system. I remember lots of packages have been updated, I don't know how many those .dpkg-new files are out there breaking my system. So, - how to fix the problem? - how to prevent it from happening again? thx a lot -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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