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

[Michael Prokop]

* Werner Flamme <werner.flamme at ufz.de> [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-
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