* Werner Flamme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060816 10:15]: > Michael Prokop schrieb am 15.08.2006 22:37:
> >> 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? > The boot hangs between the lines > Waiting for /dev to be fully populated... done. > (line 5 in your screenshot when " * Merging..." is counted as 1) and > Cleaning up ifupdown... done. > (line 6) The "done." in line 5 appers quickly, it's really *after* > *finishing* this line. The CD drive is accessed several times during the > waiting period. Thanks. So either it's a problem in /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh or probably a race condition in/with udev. > > JFYI: If you use lang=de you don't need keyboard=de anymore. :) > Aaaahhh :-) so always typing kezboard is unnecessary :-) Jupp :) > The problem only occurs on this special laptop. I had grml up and running > on my vmware in about 1 minute (given 256 MB RAM). Since I put the laptop > into a server room yesterday I can't test now - it takes quarter an hour to > walk over and back, and 1 hour to boot from CD :-( > Booting from harddisk is as fast as can be on this machine (Celeron > Mendocino 366, 64 MB RAM). So it may be a problem of modprobing - although > I manually inserted a lot of lines into /etc/modules now... Ok, thanks. So let's see if a new kernel will fix the issue. If not we could investigate in debugging it on our own. Please keep me informed about any news, thanks. regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc
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