Hiho!

Well first to point out what I want to do:

I've got a notebook computer with lots of stuff running on my debian. I.e. there is vmware and a ressource hungry anti-virus software and so on.

This is great when I'm at home and have plenty of time to boot up my system. But on some days I neither have that much time nor do I need those programs because I am on the road.

What I want to do is create a new entry in the grub.conf to be able to choose this new entry at the bootloader screen. This new entry should use a different modprobe.conf (or whatever today is responsible for modules to being loaded) so that some modules (predifined by being blacklistet or removed from the list) won't be loaded. (but surely should be loaded if I used the other grub entry)

In addition to that I'd also like to add a parameter to that entry which stops the system from doing any kind of fsck (because it takes far too long checking a 250G hard disk - and yes of course - if I'm on battery it surly doesn't do any fsck but I am not all the time on battery when I need this fastboot thing).

So any ideas?

Thank you for your time and answers!

Welcome to LQ!
this is probably possible...?
you can make a custom iso here
http://code.google.com/p/debianiso/

in sidux, based on debian sid, has cheat bootcodes to blacklist modules
debian may also use these?
( http://manual.sidux.com/en/cheatcodes-en.htm#cheatcodes )

iam running new sidux-2009-02 xfce 482mb iso off my hd now
it lives frugally and takes up the iso space(482mb) + whatever pkg's
you install, I installed flashplugin-nonfree, gimp, and some other stuff.


seems reg deb should do this too?