[issue348] boot fails on grml 1.0-5 and 1.1-rc1 on a toshiba portege m100

[Michael Prokop]

Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org> added the comment:

* Darshaka Pathirana <bts at bts.grml.org> [20090423 19:31]:

> Ok. I was able to test the a daily build (2009-04-02) on my notebook.

Great, thanks.

> And again: booting took exactly 67 secconds!
> I also booted Ubuntu 9.04 beta - alternate which did not show such a
> delay.

Ok

> That said I did not test the bootfrom=... bootoption and honestly have
> no clue how to use it. Do I have to guess the device where I would
> like to start from?

When booting grml you'll see something like "Mounting live system on
/dev/sd0" -> try booting with "grml bootfrom=/dev/sd0", assuming
that /dev/sd0 is the device. :)

The long delay happens at "searching for grml...", right?

regards,
-mika-

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assignedto: mika
files: info.tar.bz2
messages: 1027, 1682, 1710, 1811, 2121, 2203, 2205, 954, 957, 963, 965, 976
nosy: jkirk, mika
priority: bug
status: need-eg
title: boot fails on grml 1.0-5 and 1.1-rc1 on a toshiba portege m100
topic: core, kernel

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