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* Werner Flamme werner.flamme@ufz.de [20060815 14:15]:
Michael Prokop schrieb am 15.08.2006 11:30:
- Werner Flamme werner.flamme@ufz.de [20060815 11:12]:
BTW, it took more than 3 hours to boot from CD. Especially the creation of /etc/fstab seemed to work endless.
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Does it scan the whole disk? Shouldn't it be enough to read the partition table?
No, it does not scan the whole disk of course. scanpartitions just takes a look at /proc/partitions, tries to identify the filesystems on the available partitions and reports them in an appropriate format for rebuildfstab, which tries to build an appropriate /etc/fstab then.
I'd like to find out what's going on on your system. Can you please boot your system with 'grml nofstab', run grml-hwinfo and send me the resulting info.tar.bz2 (off the list)? If you manually run 'scanpartitions' - is it what runs that long?
Well, boot from disk takes about one minute, and 'scanpartitions' takes about 3 seconds to complete after logging in. It's just the time between the output "scanning for partitions" and the next line that made me assume the wohle disk ist scanned...
Ok.
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?
JFYI: If you use lang=de you don't need keyboard=de anymore. :)
regards, -mika-