Hi

after having successfully installed kernel 2.6.18-grml and a sarge base configuration via the grml-skript I have stopped working on this notebook. Now I take up on this again : It loads only few modules, so no network, no periphery: just the 6 shells and the ipv6 module is loaded.

/sys/module is rather empty : about 15 modules are listed , for HDD, CDROM and video, while at the funkentzutzler there are 74 modules listed. the line "populating /dev" does not show up in dmesg when doing the boot.

It seems that some skripts must be added to my installation to get the kernel scan its periphery.

a shortened diff ps(grml0.8,left) ps(kernel2.6.18-grml+sarge,right) is added:

PID TTY STAT COMMAND PID TTY STAT COMMAND 1 ? Ss init [2] | 1 ? Ss init [2] 2 ? S [migration/0] 2 ? S [migration/0] 3 ? SN [ksoftirqd/0] 3 ? SN [ksoftirqd/0] 4 ? S [watchdog/0] 4 ? S [watchdog/0] 5 ? S< [events/0] 5 ? S< [events/0] 6 ? S< [khelper] 6 ? S< [khelper] 7 ? S< [kthread] 7 ? S< [kthread] 9 ? S< [kblockd/0] | 10 ? S< [kblockd/0] 10 ? S< [kacpid] | 11 ? S< [kacpid] 94 ? S< [kseriod] | 96 ? S< [cqueue/0] 148 ? S [pdflush] | 97 ? S< [kseriod] 149 ? S [pdflush] | 157 ? S [pdflush] 150 ? S [kswapd0] | 158 ? S [pdflush] 151 ? S< [aio/0] | 159 ? S< [kswapd0] 152 ? S< [jfsIO] | 160 ? S< [aio/0] 153 ? S< [jfsCommit] | 161 ? S< [jfsIO] 154 ? S< [jfsSync] | 162 ? S< [jfsCommit] 155 ? S< [xfslogd/0] | 163 ? S< [jfsSync] 156 ? S< [xfsdatad/0] | 164 ? S< [xfslogd/0] 745 ? S< [cqueue/0] | 165 ? S< [xfsdatad/0] 757 ? S< [kpsmoused] | 294 ? S< [kpsmoused] 832 ? S< [ata/0] | 384 ? S< [ata/0] 841 ? S< [scsi_eh_0] | 385 ? S< [ata_aux] 842 ? S< [scsi_eh_1] | 394 ? S< [scsi_eh_0] 868 ? S< [kcryptd/0] | 395 ? S< [scsi_eh_1] 869 ? S< [kmirrord] | 416 ? S< [kcryptd/0] 943 ? S< [khubd] | 417 ? S< [kmirrord] 989 ? S< [scsi_eh_2] | 423 ? S< [kjournald] 990 ? S< [usb-storage] | 807 ? Ss /sbin/syslogd 1944 ? S< [loop0] | 810 ? Ss /sbin/klogd 2215 ? S<s udevd --daemon | 842 ? Ss /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m 3837 ? S [khpsbpkt] | 848 ? Ss /usr/sbin/inetd 3934 ? S [pccardd] | 855 ? Ss /usr/sbin/sshd 3935 ? S [knodemgrd_0] | 868 ? Ss /sbin/mdadm -F -i /var/run/mdadm.p 3993 ? S< [shpchpd] | 871 ? Ss /usr/sbin/atd 4017 ? S< [kgameportd] | 874 ? Ss /usr/sbin/cron 4504 ? Ss /usr/sbin/acpid -c /etc/acpi/event | 882 tty1 Ss -bash 4625 ? SNs pump -i eth0 | 885 tty2 Ss+ /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 4680 ? SNs /sbin/syslog-ng -p /var/run/syslog | 886 tty3 Ss+ /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 4695 ? SNs /usr/sbin/powernowd -q | 887 tty4 Ss+ /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 4719 ? SNs /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t aut | 888 tty5 Ss+ /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 4759 tty1 Ss /bin/zsh -l | 889 tty6 Ss+ /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 4760 tty2 Ss+ /bin/dash /usr/bin/grml-init-scree | 910 tty1 R+ ps ax 4761 tty3 Ss+ /bin/dash /usr/bin/grml-init-scree < 4762 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /bin/zsh < 4763 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /bin/zsh < 4766 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /bin/zsh < 4767 tty9 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty9 < 4768 tty10 Ss+ 0:00 /bin/zsh --login -c /usr/bin/iptst < 4771 tty11 Ss+ 0:00 /bin/zsh --login -c /usr/bin/htop < 4774 tty12 Ss+ 0:00 /bin/zsh --login -c /usr/bin/multi < 4822 tty10 S+ 0:00 /usr/bin/iptstate < 4824 tty11 S+ 0:33 /usr/bin/htop < 4825 tty12 S+ 0:00 /usr/bin/multitail /var/log/syslog < 4834 tty12 S 0:00 tail -48lf /var/log/syslog < 4841 tty2 S+ 0:00 /usr/bin/screen -c /etc/grml/scree < 4845 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/SCREEN -c /etc/grml/scree < 4848 tty3 S+ 0:00 /usr/bin/screen -c /etc/grml/scree < 4849 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/SCREEN -c /etc/grml/scree < 4869 pts/0 Ss+ 0:00 zsh < 4873 pts/1 Ss+ 0:00 zsh < 5059 ? S< 0:00 [kjournald] < 5078 ? S< 0:00 [kjournald] < 5219 tty1 R+ 0:00 ps ax <

From the process numbers I see that a lot of transient processes did not

happen on my install, and usb-storage, cqueued, loop0, udevd do not exist thereafter.

best regards