Hubert Gabler schrieb:
I use grml 1.1 but wanted to test the new 2008.11 version. I noticed 2 very annoying features: When it reads "Searching for grml file, this might take a few seconds" in reality it takes 3:30 minutes before the program continues.
When you have it booted and cat /proc/partitions, how many entries are displayed there?
How many entries are in the /sys/block/ directory?
What filesystems are on your partitions?
Since it scans all devices for the grml file (which could be either on an USB or on a CDROM), slow external devices or partitions that need some time for mounting can slow this process down here.
But I never had more than a few (~30) seconds delay at that point, so it must be something in your setup.
But only to stop again at "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated" for about 30 seconds.
Yeah, I noticed this delay as well. No idea why it got that slow in the latest version. OTOH, as I use grml mainly as a rescue disk, I prefer a 30 seconds delay to work around some hardware issues (if that was the reason for the delay) to a GRML that might not boot on the hardware where I need it.
You might use noudev instead, but that will break automatic detection of external devices and some other things (so I would only use it if the machine freezes or reboots at that stage).
Michael