I'm sorry to say that but now it's close to two years without any real work on
this issue. So seems to affect just very few users or nobody really cares about
it, so marking this issue as won't fix. We of course support and welcome anyone
stumbling upon this issue and providing a patch.

Nobody cares about it, won't be handled for this release.

This feature request is more than 2 years old and nobody took care of it.
Do we have any volunteers who would work on that feature?

regards,
-mika-

Recieved today a bug report with this issue.

Any progress? IMHO the best thing would be to mount the medium somewhere else, 
but it will introduce new problems, like removing the media while boot 
process...

The simplest solution would be to copy the files too as memory size is often not 
such a big issue anymore.

Marking it as release-stopper for the future

This issue needs further investigation, especially since toram=*.squashfs is 
the default nowadays.

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:53:04PM -0000, Michael Prokop wrote:
> Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> added the comment:
> * Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber <bts@bts.grml.org> [20090301 14:49]:
> > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:17:40PM -0000, Michael Prokop wrote:
> 
> > > So what I'm thinking about is checking for bootoptions like
> > > 'scripts', 'debs',... and just copy the corresponding directory to
> > > RAM when booting via toram=.... then. I guess this might be the best
> > > option to match all possible wishes.
> 
> > That sounds like a good idea. Or you would mount the "real" medium
> > somewhere else and execute scrips, debs etc from there. It is not
> > really necessary to pull the stuff to ram.
> 
> Well, I'm not sure what might happen if people remove the usb device
> just a bit too early then. :-/

If you try mounting the medium just before executing the scripts, the
mount will fail and you can issue an error message.

Greetings
Marc

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* Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber <bts@bts.grml.org> [20090301 14:49]:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:17:40PM -0000, Michael Prokop wrote:

> > So what I'm thinking about is checking for bootoptions like
> > 'scripts', 'debs',... and just copy the corresponding directory to
> > RAM when booting via toram=.... then. I guess this might be the best
> > option to match all possible wishes.

> That sounds like a good idea. Or you would mount the "real" medium
> somewhere else and execute scrips, debs etc from there. It is not
> really necessary to pull the stuff to ram.

Well, I'm not sure what might happen if people remove the usb device
just a bit too early then. :-/ I've to check this out in more
detail. (Though I'll ping live-initramfs maintainer once again to
find out what's the current state of re-designing the code after
lenny is out.)

regards,
-mika-

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:17:40PM -0000, Michael Prokop wrote:
> So what I'm thinking about is checking for bootoptions like
> 'scripts', 'debs',... and just copy the corresponding directory to
> RAM when booting via toram=.... then. I guess this might be the best
> option to match all possible wishes.

That sounds like a good idea. Or you would mount the "real" medium
somewhere else and execute scrips, debs etc from there. It is not
really necessary to pull the stuff to ram.

Greetings
Marc

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* Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber <bts@bts.grml.org> [20090228 21:59]:

> when grml is started with
> /grml-medium-20090123/boot/grmlmedium/linux26 
> live-media-path=/grml-medium-20090123/live/ toram=grml-medium.squashfs 
> boot=live scripts
> the scripts are ignored as they are not copied over to the ram disk.

> This feature is important when grml is used as a rescue system, the CD contents 
> is copied to /grml in an ordinary linux filesystem and booted alternatively to 
> the "real" system by group. If the system is located remote in a network where 
> no dhcp server is present and does not have a serial console, a grml.sh script 
> may be needed to properly initialize the network to allow access to the system.

> "toram" without a file given on the command line works, but copies the entire 
> root file system into ram which may not fit in all cases.

Hm yeah, toram=grml-medium.squashfs really just copies the squashfs
file to RAM. It *would* be possible to also copy /debs, /scripts,
/bootparams,... to RAM by default - on the other hand I might get a
bugreport that specifying toram=grml-medium.squashfs copies a >100MB
/debs/ to RAM even though the user just wanted to copy the squashfs
file. ;)

So what I'm thinking about is checking for bootoptions like
'scripts', 'debs',... and just copy the corresponding directory to
RAM when booting via toram=.... then. I guess this might be the best
option to match all possible wishes.

regards,
-mika-

Hi,

when grml is started with
/grml-medium-20090123/boot/grmlmedium/linux26 
live-media-path=/grml-medium-20090123/live/ toram=grml-medium.squashfs 
boot=live scripts
the scripts are ignored as they are not copied over to the ram disk.

This feature is important when grml is used as a rescue system, the CD contents 
is copied to /grml in an ordinary linux filesystem and booted alternatively to 
the "real" system by group. If the system is located remote in a network where 
no dhcp server is present and does not have a serial console, a grml.sh script 
may be needed to properly initialize the network to allow access to the system.

"toram" without a file given on the command line works, but copies the entire 
root file system into ram which may not fit in all cases.