[mythtv-users] Looking for MicroATX AM2 CPU supporting motherboard suggestions.

[Jeff Holicky]

Interesting.  I haven't fully explored a method of booting over a
network.

Your idea sounds pretty good.  Your BE is the server that would serve up
a full or partial "network version" of Linux.  I figure that if the BE
goes down (whatever reason), if I stored recordings on a standalone
network HDD, then at least I could still watch those.

The CF / SD memory has limited writes.  Not such a problem when doing
things like music/videos since the amount of writes are small, but I am
wondering about logs.  Are you suggesting that there is little to no
writing to the CF card each time it reboots?  Once it fully boots are
all logs stored on the BE?  

On the downside - if the boot was fully on the BE, if the network goes
down you are cooked.  I suppose are you are not better off in that case,
but it would eliminate some networking problems (obtaining info) with
your scenario.

The best of all worlds - being able to fully run a diskless (not via CD;
not starting with NIC) via a larger 2-4GB CF card - and then at some
point during the process flip the logs over to the BE -- if it is up;
otherwise write them to the CF card but alert the user. Again that would
allow the machine to come back up and be available for something instead
of DOA.

Are there any web resources on how one would break up the boot process
like this?  

(logs such as messages etc - anything)

jahsr

----- Original message -----
From: "Krzysztof Adamski" <k at adamski.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:35:30 -0500
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for MicroATX AM2 CPU       
supporting      motherboard suggestions.

I boot my FE from 256MB CF connected to a IDE to CF converter. Very
simple way of making the FE be diskless. The / is on the CF, the /usr
and /var are on the BE.

K

On Wed, 2008-05-11 at 12:39 -0500, Dan Wilga wrote:
> At 10:36 AM -0500 11/5/08, Colin McGregor wrote:
> >I am looking for a replacement for an ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS motherboard,
> >which has proven to be Linux hostile (four trips back to ASUS and it
> >still will not boot KnoppMyth...).
> 
> Before you give up on the old board... Perhaps it won't network boot, 
> but did you consider using a SD memory card and reader? This is what 
> I do with my ASUS motherboard machine, and it works quite well. You 
> can get an 4 Gb card and internal, USB reader for less than $20 total.
> 

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