[Grml] grml 0.8: how to use my 3com pcmcia card?

[Michael Prokop]

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* Werner Flamme <werner.flamme at ufz.de> [20060815 14:15]:
> Michael Prokop schrieb am 15.08.2006 11:30:
> > * Werner Flamme <werner.flamme at ufz.de> [20060815 11:12]:

> >> BTW, it took more than 3 hours to boot from CD. Especially the
> >> creation of /etc/fstab seemed to work endless.
[...]
> >> Does it scan the whole disk? Shouldn't it be enough to read the 
> >> partition table?

> > No, it does not scan the whole disk of course. scanpartitions just takes
> > a look at /proc/partitions, tries to identify the filesystems on the
> > available partitions and reports them in an appropriate format for
> > rebuildfstab, which tries to build an appropriate /etc/fstab then.

> > I'd like to find out what's going on on your system. Can you please boot
> > your system with 'grml nofstab', run grml-hwinfo and send me the
> > resulting info.tar.bz2 (off the list)? If you manually run
> > 'scanpartitions' - is it what runs that long?

> Well, boot from disk takes about one minute, and 'scanpartitions' takes
> about 3 seconds to complete after logging in. It's just the time between
> the output "scanning for partitions" and the next line that made me assume
> the wohle disk ist scanned...

Ok.

> 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?

JFYI: If you use lang=de you don't need keyboard=de anymore. :)

regards,
-mika-
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