[Grml] bloody raid
Michael Prokop
mika at grml.org
Tue Mar 6 18:58:14 CET 2007
* my <yazdzik at nyct.net> [20070302 20:15]:
> 1. 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?
> 2. 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-
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