regarding 1:
there is "grml small" bootparam, which starts fewer consoles on startup
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Schierl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 7:03 PM
Subject: [Grml] Suggestions
Hi,
some things I noticed when using grml 0.8 recently that might be changed
some day to make grml even better:
1. When loading grml on older machines there is a noticable delay (and
cdrom activity) when there are loaded lots of screen and zsh
instances into the virtual consoles. I'd like to have a cheatcode (or
a runlevel) that only loads programs for console 1 at startup.
Other consoles are loaded after a key has been pressed there. For
those consoles that use rungetty, its --prompt option could be used
to archieve this.
2. Having GRUB available on GRML is great. However, I'd like to have a
few "Grub keyboard layouts" included for people who, unlike me,
cannot find all that special chars like = or / on an American
keyboard layout. You can find a German and a French layout on my
bootdisk (or its config files) available at
<http://home.arcor.de/mschierlm/bootdisk/>.
On the other hand, you can save about 1MB on CD by using a 360KB
floppy image instead of a 1.44MB one. (I tested it and chainloading a
360KB GRUB disk image from memdisk works.)
3. When, for some reason, I need grml booted on two machines and cannot
use the grml-terminalserver (for example because I may not interfere
with DHCP servers in the network and do not have a crossover network
cable with me either) I like to use the toram option. But, obviously,
it needs lots of RAM and time to get started. In these cases
grml-small would be better. But I want to carry around as few disks
as possible. So I thought if it is possible to splitting the squashfs
image into two images that are merged by unionfs, where the smaller
one contains a basic system that includes all stuff from grml-small
(which may be larger than 50MB, but as small as possible) and have a
cheatcode to load only the small part into ram (and not use the large
part at all). I do not know if this is feasible in the grml build
process (obviously it will require some extra work of splitting the
image), but it would be cool. I don't know any live cd that tries to
do things like this, so perhaps it is not possible...?
4. The bootsplash flickers quite a lot. You might reduce flickering by
replacing the »/usr/bin/clear« by »echo -ne '\033[H\033[25l'«
which will not clear the screen but move the cursor to top and set
the cursor invisible. Another nice thing would be having boot
messages scrolling in a small "window" inside the bootsplash, like
it can be done by »ESC [ first ; last r« (see
»man console_codes | less +/region«), but since I do not know how
many users are using bootsplash anyway (I usually do not), this is
just eye-candy and very low priority for me :-)
Feel free to flame me now ;-)
Michael
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