* Werner Flamme werner.flamme@ufz.de [20060816 10:15]:
Michael Prokop schrieb am 15.08.2006 22:37:
Booting with 'grml nofstab keyboard=de lang=de' causes "Waitung for /dev to be fully populated... done" to be the last line on the screen for a long time (> 15 min.). After 40 minutes I read "ACPI Bios found", but now I have to go to a colleague's farewell party ;-)
Ok, seems to be a problem with a specific driver. Does booting with "grml noudev nofstab lang=de" work for you? Disclaimer: many drivers won't be loaded automatically then. I'm not yet sure whether it's udev (with a specific driver) or another startup script causing the problems.
This screenshot shows a typical startup of grml: http://grml.org/tmp/gkrellShoot_08-15-06_223409.png Can you please point me to the line which you see right before it's hanging?
The boot hangs between the lines Waiting for /dev to be fully populated... done. (line 5 in your screenshot when " * Merging..." is counted as 1) and Cleaning up ifupdown... done. (line 6) The "done." in line 5 appers quickly, it's really *after* *finishing* this line. The CD drive is accessed several times during the waiting period.
Thanks. So either it's a problem in /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh or probably a race condition in/with udev.
JFYI: If you use lang=de you don't need keyboard=de anymore. :)
Aaaahhh :-) so always typing kezboard is unnecessary :-)
Jupp :)
The problem only occurs on this special laptop. I had grml up and running on my vmware in about 1 minute (given 256 MB RAM). Since I put the laptop into a server room yesterday I can't test now - it takes quarter an hour to walk over and back, and 1 hour to boot from CD :-( Booting from harddisk is as fast as can be on this machine (Celeron Mendocino 366, 64 MB RAM). So it may be a problem of modprobing - although I manually inserted a lot of lines into /etc/modules now...
Ok, thanks.
So let's see if a new kernel will fix the issue. If not we could investigate in debugging it on our own. Please keep me informed about any news, thanks.
regards, -mika-