Hubert Gabler schrieb: > I use grml 1.1 but wanted to test the new 2008.11 version. I noticed 2 > very annoying features: When it reads "Searching for grml file, this > might take a few seconds" in reality it takes 3:30 minutes before the > program continues.
When you have it booted and cat /proc/partitions, how many entries are displayed there? How many entries are in the /sys/block/ directory? What filesystems are on your partitions? Since it scans all devices for the grml file (which could be either on an USB or on a CDROM), slow external devices or partitions that need some time for mounting can slow this process down here. But I never had more than a few (~30) seconds delay at that point, so it must be something in your setup. > But only to stop again at "Waiting for /dev to be > fully populated" for about 30 seconds. Yeah, I noticed this delay as well. No idea why it got that slow in the latest version. OTOH, as I use grml mainly as a rescue disk, I prefer a 30 seconds delay to work around some hardware issues (if that was the reason for the delay) to a GRML that might not boot on the hardware where I need it. You might use noudev instead, but that will break automatic detection of external devices and some other things (so I would only use it if the machine freezes or reboots at that stage). Michael _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/
