* 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-