[mythtv-users] network booting/diskless mythfrontend box

[Joe Byrne]

Another, perhaps more complex option, is to boot off a flash (IDE or
possibly USB) drive.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wally" <wally at satx.rr.com>
To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 6:16 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] network booting/diskless mythfrontend box


> I really want to go diskless with my frontend, but I can't find a good
> microatx motherboard that will pxe boot. I guess I could buy a nic card
> and an eeprom, but I would rather have it be supported on board. I was
> using an asus a7n266-vm which turns out to have been a horrible purchase
> because I can't underclock or undervolt it to run silent and the bios
> sucks and won't boot over the network. I also tried a pcchips m758lmr
> board and put linuxbios on it, but the cpu usage even on a celeron
> 1.2ghz was too much to run mythfrontend. For some reason on that board X
> would take up 30-50% cpu when playing video - the board did network boot
> though.
> So...
> Can someone recommend a good microatx board to run in my frontend? I
> have both an xp 1700 and a celeron 1.2 laying around so intel/amd
> doesn't matter. All I care about is build in network booting. I am
> posting this hoping someone has personal experience with diskless myth.
>
>  Thanks all!
>
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