* my yazdzik@nyct.net [20070302 20:15]:
- When using debian pure on a partition I can merely
chroot /thatpartition and apt-get, install, and so. I am never able to do this in a grml install, which means that if I want to install grml on partition /blah, I have to be running it in order to work in it, which is a waste of time.
Huh?! What does not work when running 'chroot /partition-with-grml-on-it' and executing something like 'apt-get update' inside then?
- More importantly, I need fast boot times on the laptops. I built
kernel no raid, no shit, in other words, the hardware for the laptop, plus any conceivable thing that one could plug in. Got rid of every reference in autoconfig and runlevel.conf that I can imagine, and it still seeks the raid array, and, since I had no modules, boot up takes just as long, with the result that the modules are not found. I want to make it so that there is no reference anywhere to any possible raid issue, and get rid of that ten second lilo delay as well, as I do not need it, since I am always able to boot into grml. Likewise, most laptops have had no floppy drive for at least two years. fd0 does not exist, never did, never will, why load the module, or if blacklisted, why seek to seek it?
Loading this kernel module does not take any noteworthy time. If you really want to avoid loading of some special kernel modules just run "blacklist $MODULE" on your grml system and it won't be loaded any more. Regarding the "why seek to seek the floppy drive": even though your laptop might not have a floppy *drive* you might have a connector/connection for it on your motherboard.
To get rid of the raid stuff:
* Deactivate dmraid, mdadm-raid and mdadm in your /etc/runlevel.conf. This means it should look like:
# grep -e mdadm -e dmraid /etc/runlevel.conf 03 - - /etc/init.d/dmraid 25 - - /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid 25 0,1,6 - /etc/init.d/mdadm 50 - 0,6 /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid 51 - 0,6 /etc/init.d/dmraid
Notice: there's something related to this on our todolist, see http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue89
* Remove the sleep delay in the initrd:
# apt-get --reinstall install initramfs-tools # update-initramfs -c -t -k $(uname -r) # lilo # if you use it
If you do not need the initrd at all just deactivate it in your lilo.conf/menu.lst.
regards, -mika-