* Ishwar Rattan ishwar@pali.cps.cmich.edu [20051120 22:54]:
The grml version is 0.5 Release Codename Tokolytika [2005-10-24]
Ok.
What should be the contents of /etc/modules file? I just now added
autofs4 es1371 parport usb-storage
to see if things will change.
There's nothing specific you have to set, except you want to load modules automatically if they aren't yet loaded through discover, hotplug-light or something like that.
Syslog does not write anything to /var/log/messages till I start
/etc/init.s/syslog-ng start
The entries in /etc/runlevel.conf are
20 0,1,6 - /etc/init.d/cupsys 20 0,1,6 - /etc/init.d/autofs
and none for
hotplug-light and syslog-ng
so far I start them by hand.
hotplug-light and syslog-ng are started through grml-autoconfig. grml-autoconfig is the main part of the hardware detection. grml-autoconfig gets started in runlevel 2:
root@grml ~ # grep grml-autoconfig /etc/runlevel.conf 30 - 2 /etc/init.d/grml-autoconfig
Don't you see something like in http://grml.org/tmp/fastboot.png when booting your grml system? It sounds like grml-autoconfig is never run, this would explain the problems you did consider so far.
Compare the files /etc/runlevel.conf /etc/runlevel.conf.hdinstall. Is grml-autoconfig present when booting your system? Are the variables CONFIG_SYSLOG and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_MAIN in /etc/grml/autoconfig set to 'yes'?
regards, -mika-