We believe that your issue has been closed by the upload of
Version 0.13.2 of grml-autoconfig from Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>.
The explanation is attached below

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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 23:27:04 +0200
Source: grml-autoconfig
Binary: grml-autoconfig
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.13.2
Distribution: grml-testing
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Changed-By: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Description: 
 grml-autoconfig - main bootup process of a Grml (based) system
Changes: 
 grml-autoconfig (0.13.2) grml-testing; urgency=medium
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   * [4612d93] Code cleanup, drop config_dma + check_partitions
     [Closes: issue1305]
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config_dma() in /etc/grml/autoconfig.functions assumes that /proc/ide exists. if
it does not, an error is logged to /tmp - thanks to Md for reporting