gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user

grml and booting via pxe

Philipp Flesch — 2008-06-28T20:57:18

Hi! I was wondering how to get grml_1.1.iso booting via pxe. I've already ... ... unpacked the iso to /exports/grml ... access via network to 10.10.0.103:/exports/grml ... read http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver and ... downloaded http://grml.org/terminalserver/grml_netboot_package_1.1.tar.bz2 (and installed it) ... found http://www.mail-archive.com/grml< at >mur.at/msg00802.html Now ... that are the right parameters in pxelinux.cfg/default? APPEND root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.10.0.103:/exports/grml boot=live lang=us nomce quiet apm=power-off nodhcp noprompt noeject initrd=grml/minirt26.gz vga=791 ==> can't access tty ==> problem mounting live file system APPEND ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/etc/init nfsdir=10.10.0.103:/exports/grml nodhcp noprompt noeject apm=power-off nomce initrd=grml/minirt26.gz vga=791 ==> brings grml up to "Begin: Waiting for the root file system ..." Where to find the fault? Philipp

Re: grml newbie

Andreas Gredler — 2008-06-27T17:40:51

Does it boot from CD but not from Harddisk? Than maybe the hard disk just died. You can check the hard disk by mounting it under Linux. If you can not mount it (or not access it with tools like fdisk) then the hard disk is dead. If you can mount it you can then check if it's only partly damaged by running smartctl, e.g. smartcl -t short /dev/hda. Results will be accessible with smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda. If this test is ok, too, then run smartctl -t long /dev/hda for a more precise test. greets Jimmy

Re: grml newbie

Maurice McCarthy — 2008-06-28T03:02:18

Hi again Try testdisk for a diagnosis. Read ntfstools and/or ntfs3g To safely mount an ntfs partition use ntfsmount Unmount with fusermount -u ... Sorry that is the best I can do. Really good luck Moss

Re: grml in a multi-boot environment

Maurice McCarthy — 2008-06-28T02:55:23

Hi Don, Welcome At the installation of the boot loader although lilo is there as default grub is also there as a second choice. Other blind users have indirectly indicated to the list that this is second choice not apparent to them. I don't understand why as it is clear to a sighted user. If I remember rightly it is a radio button type of choice. By default in grml 1.1 grub is placed into the installation partition and not the mbr. It will write its own menu.lst into /boot/grub/ on that partition. I do not remember the script picking up on other installed systems, it just ignores them. So this means a little manual configuration. (I'm at sea just now and don't have my system to look at.) I think this can be done by installing grml, let's say on sda7, then boot fedora and mount the grml partition. Then copy the tail of grml's menu.lst to the fedora menu.lst # mount -t ext3 /dev/sda7 /mnt/grml # tail -n 20 /mnt/grml/boot/grub/menu.lst >> /boot/grub/menu.lst Where 20 is the number of lines you want to copy

grml in a multi-boot environment

2008-06-27T20:42:34

grml newbie

2008-06-27T15:41:06

IRC-log contents related to hardware problem

Keith Hinton — 2008-06-15T01:20:57

Hello all, I have an AMD64-bit box with an interesting hardware quirk. Hear is the contents of and IRC log, and hopefully this helps. Suggestions, please! Hello all. I have an odd quirk in my hardware on another box. I need assistance in troubleshooting the issue, and har it is. hear Note: I only speak english, not German, so.. Hear goes. The GRML CD boots, or starts too, sort of. Then, the CD hangs, at: "Mounting TMPFS." The word "Segmentation Fault" appears next to that. I have had someone read me the screen. The amount of RAM int he other box is 1G or 1024M. But the box does this constantly. I would run memtest86, but have had noone available to read me any possible errors with the RAM. I've ran Memtest multiple times. But I'm not just going to give up without a fight. So I want to know if posible any kernel command-line

Re: Setting up grub into lvm and a suggestion

Maurice McCarthy — 2008-06-06T10:50:42

Forgot to say that the work around to chain load grub from ntldr will also work for lilo. Moss

Re: Setting up grub into lvm and a suggestion

Maurice McCarthy — 2008-06-06T09:00:51

First of all I believe that lilo was being loaded as default because lvm did not work properly in grub. I do not know if this has been corrected. Secondly, since you already have grub installed then enter "grub" followed by grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 which should give you an answer like (hd0,5) or whatever. grml2hd usually places grub in the partition as if it ran grub>setup (hd0,5) This would leave you with a system booting windows only from the hard disk. Microsoft have altered the master boot record with most every upgrade their operating system. But ntldr is very stupid and this allows an easy answer to chainload grub from ntldr. Quit grub. With ntfsmount an ordinary user should be able to write to the ntfs partition zsh% ntfsmount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 zsh% dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/mnt/hda1/grml.mbr bs=512 count=1 The last command must written exactly. It copies the bootsector of (hd0,5) into the windows partition at C:\ Now boot windows as administrator. Make C:\boot.ini writeable Open boot.ini i

[gopher] Unveiling the Overbite Project

Maurice McCarthy — 2008-06-06T09:24:49

For information only. Firefox 3 will end support for the gopher protocol. A firefox addon has been written from scratch over the last few months, as below. Regards Moss ----- Forwarded message from Cameron Kaiser floodgap.com> ----- Subject: [gopher] Unveiling the Overbite Project (and other announcements) From: Cameron Kaiser floodgap.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 06:19:30 -0700 (PDT) To: gopher< at >complete.org This message is really, really long. Here goes: ** OverbiteFF for Firefox 3: "RTM" With the release of Firefox 3 RC2, I took the wraps off OverbiteFF. This is the release version, 1.0-1381. It does have some small changes, including a bug fix for port access, additional explicit ports and CSS tweaks, so it is a recommended download if you are still using -1380. We'll see if anyone gets the joke on the build number. ;-) You can now preview the Overbite Project pages. There are HTTP and Gopher versions: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite

Re: Setting up grub into lvm and a suggestion

Michael Prokop — 2008-06-06T08:56:51

Setting up grub into lvm and a suggestion

Cleverson — 2008-06-06T02:40:04

Hello I suggest, if possible, that grml2hd detects automatically other OSes on the hard disk and sets up lilo/grub accordingly during the installation. Here I have Windows XP on the first partition - /dev/sda1 - but I don't know how to deal with lilo. I was thinking that grml2hd would prompt me for choosing grub instead of lilo, but it didn not, perhaps because I've installed grml onto a logical partition ? I know how to setup grub for dual-booting and for booting Linux into a primary partition. I guess that setting it up on a logical partition is somewhat different, since I have typed "root(hd0,5)" at the grub console in order to setup the root device to /dev/sda6, and grub has returned "unknown filesystem type". Does anyone have any tip for me? Cheers Cleverson

Re: experiences with dell inspiron 530

Henning Sprang — 2008-06-04T13:23:00

Vesa also worked sometimes, sometimes together with -fallback, but the results somehow did not seem really reproducible - though clearly, I didn't do really structured, documented testing :) Unfortunately, the hardware is already gone now, but I can try again when I get at it in the next days/weeks. Henning

Re: experiences with dell inspiron 530

Michael Prokop — 2008-06-03T22:09:44

Re: experiences with dell inspiron 530

Henning Sprang — 2008-06-03T14:18:28

BTW: Henning Sprang wrote: This one is not reproducible - it worked once, but then again it didn't work without fallback, and sometimes it starts without fallback, but the resolution is still in "emulation mode" - don't know the right word - the X system runs on a resolution higher than the one shown on the screen, and it automatically scrolls in the invisiable parts when the mouse cursor comes close to the screen border. Henning Another thing I see here with grml 1.1: when doing a reboot, grml is so nice to stop and tell me to remove the cd. But when I do so, and hit return, it doesn't reboot nicely, but complains about the now missing device.

experiences with dell inspiron 530

Henning Sprang — 2008-06-03T13:40:01

Hi, Some experiences with grml 1.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530(nvidia chipset and graphics system) and a generic issue: when running grml-x with a module option, but without windowmanager, it complains that the windowmanager with the name of the module doesn't exist. I'd expect it just says "you didn't specify a windowmanager", but instead it seems to try to take the last argument as windowmanager name. As of the hardware support for inspiron: grml-x doesn't get an x system loaded - until I start it one time with the -fallback option. _after_ this one start with fallback, I can start it again, without fallback - and then I get a better resolution and can work without the screen-scrolling that happens in fallback mode. Let me know if you need and hints or info on the system. Henning

Re: How To Change Voice Language?

Cleverson — 2008-06-01T01:18:03

Hi Michael and all As I said earlier, I'm trying to change the ESpeak voice language to Brazilian Portuguese in grml. I made some changes to /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, then restarted speechd-up successfully using the nice command, but the language remains English. I uncommented the line 78 in speechd.conf, and changed "en" to pt. It looks like this: DefaultLanguage "pt" Then I did the same for line 156 that now looks like this: LanguageDefaultModule "pt" "espeak" Does anyone knows what I am missing? Many thanks Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho)

Re: Install on LVM: some questions

Michael Prokop — 2008-05-31T19:45:43

Re: How To Change Voice Language?

Michael Prokop — 2008-05-31T19:40:01

Re: Install on LVM: some questions

Cleverson — 2008-05-31T18:56:26

Thanks. I've read that xfs and reiserfs have better performance than ext3 in general. Do you have any experience with another fs than ext3? Would you recommend any filesystem in particular? Cheers Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho)

Re: How To Change Voice Language?

Cleverson — 2008-05-31T18:47:40

I'm not sure which commands should I type to do that. I echoed the following ones, but speech did not come back: sudo killall speech-dispatcher sudo speech-dispatcher sudo speechd-up Thanks for helping Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho)