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Topic: after hd install - 'frugal' appears in /boot/grub, why?

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robh

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Posted: Oct. 09 2006,07:14

firstly i would just like to say, well done to the team and everyone else who contributes to dsl. i recently attempted to work thru the 'linux from scratch 6.2' book (unsuccessfully i might add)

the greater insight i got into the guts of building a distro has given me an even greater respect for the quality of dsl... and in only 49mb. how did you do it???

anyway, on to my question...

i am running dsl 3.0.1 on an old 586 notebook and having got to know dsl over the last 12 mths or so. I did a traditional harddrive install, installed the deb gnu-utils, enabled apt, added gtk2 libs, got the gtk2 progs i needed and they are all persistent in /opt so everything is hunky dory.

i use grub as my bootloader and choose the fbdev option during install, all good. after the install grub then gives me a choice of 4 boot options, of which i pick the second in the list as this has my correct screen resolution.

here is the list as edited from /boot/grub/menu.lst
title DSL
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda2 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal

title DSL fb800x600
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda2 quiet vga=788 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal

title DSL fb1024x768
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda2 quiet vga=791 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal

title DSL fb1280x1024
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda2 quiet vga=794 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal

now i am certain that i chose the hd install, not frugal, but in all of the preloaded boot options from grub above, it seems they all contain the 'frugal' switch?

after booting, i do not have a /KNOPPIX folder in / as i do when running from livecd (as i thought i should have if i was running a frugal install).

i would just like confirmation that if i have no /KNOPPIX dir, then i must be running a trad hd install, and hence should be able to delete the 'frugal' switch from my boot options without problem?

thanks in advance.

:cool:

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Pentium 266Mhz
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~3.2GB HD
full HD install of dsl 3.2

mikshaw

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Posted: Oct. 09 2006,12:19

I'm guessing this is a generic menu.lst file. If you don't have /KNOPPIX and /ramdisk directories you do not have frugal

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roberts

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Posted: Oct. 09 2006,15:53

It is generic. Our main focus is frugal, hence a default of frugal.
frugal option does nothing with a traditional hard drive install.

robh

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Posted: Oct. 10 2006,05:21

thought so...

thanks for confirming.

i removed the frugal statement and all is as it should be...

i also added dma to my boot options and it works too..

i did a hdparm -Tt after a successful first dma boot and the rates changed from 3.92 M/s (buffer cache) and 2.56 M/s (buffer dl) to 64 M/s (cache) and 6.08 M/s (dl)

that sounds good to me...

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Presario 1240
Pentium 266Mhz
96MB RAM
~3.2GB HD
full HD install of dsl 3.2

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