On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:43:37PM -0000, Michael Prokop wrote:
> Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> added the comment:
> > On the system in question, monitoring /proc/partitions at this shell shows that 
> > the partition "sda" appears significantly earlier than sda4, the partition that 
> > holds the grml stuff. Maybe the boot process of grml2ram chokes about this.
> 
> Very interesting behaviour, indeed.
> 
> What's "significantly earlier" talking about time? Is this half a
> second? 2 seconds? Even more?

Like ten to fifteen seconds, if I remember correctly.

>  Can you reproduce this behaviour with another usb pen as well?

It's my best stick, but I'll try with another one if I get around
doing that.

Greetings
Marc

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* Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber <bts@bts.grml.org> [20080513 16:49]:

> Booting grml-medium 0.1 "Pfuh" from USB. grml toram works fine, but since it 
> copies the entire USB stick to RAM takes a long time if the server only has USB 
> 1.1.

> grml2ram, otoh, does not seem to wait long enough for the USB stuff to settle 
> and drops me to a shell after "Searching for GRML file". scandelay=60 does not 
> help, the shell is invoked significantly earlier than 60 seconds.

Bootoption scandelay isn't supported anymore (because it shouldn't
be necessary anymore), fixed in the docs.
http://hg.grml.org/grml-live/rev/2c3d73decd61

> On the system in question, monitoring /proc/partitions at this shell shows that 
> the partition "sda" appears significantly earlier than sda4, the partition that 
> holds the grml stuff. Maybe the boot process of grml2ram chokes about this.

Very interesting behaviour, indeed.

What's "significantly earlier" talking about time? Is this half a
second? 2 seconds? Even more? Can you reproduce this behaviour with
another usb pen as well?

thx && regards,
-mika-

Booting grml-medium 0.1 "Pfuh" from USB. grml toram works fine, but since it 
copies the entire USB stick to RAM takes a long time if the server only has USB 
1.1.

grml2ram, otoh, does not seem to wait long enough for the USB stuff to settle 
and drops me to a shell after "Searching for GRML file". scandelay=60 does not 
help, the shell is invoked significantly earlier than 60 seconds.

On the system in question, monitoring /proc/partitions at this shell shows that 
the partition "sda" appears significantly earlier than sda4, the partition that 
holds the grml stuff. Maybe the boot process of grml2ram chokes about this.

Greetings
Marc