[mythtv-users] Network boot
Bobby Schwartz
rschwartz at lastar.com
Thu Jan 8 20:02:32 UTC 2009
> Brad Benson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:38 PM, mythtv at blandford.net
> > <mailto:mythtv at blandford.net> <mythtv at blandford.net
> > <mailto:mythtv at blandford.net>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Another thing that works well for me is to network boot AND get
> > suspend/resume to work.
> >
> > I am using minimyth on my diskless frontend. It mounts its
filesystems
> > via NFS.
> >
> > I am also using a MCE IR receiver. With it, I can suspend and
resume
> > from the remote.
> >
> >
> > I have this exact same setup, but I am running the frontend under
FC8
> > instead of minimyth. I was never able to get FC8 to correctly
> > suspend/resume on the network booting client. In fact, I'm
currently in
> > the process of changing that frontend over to CentOS 5.2 and I'd
like to
> > revisit the suspend/resume issue when I do this.
> >
> > How are you doing this? Are you writing the suspend image to a
local
> > disk on the netbooting machine? CF card maybe? My machine is
currently
> > diskless, but I have a CF card and IDE->CF adapter that I could use
if
> > that's what I need to do.
>
> Suspend to Ram.
>
> I didn't really even have to configure anything with minimyth. it
just
> worked out of the box.
>
> I did have to flip a jumper on my motherboard to tell it to wake from
> USB, but thats about it.
>
> I have no IDE, CF, or any type of "disk" in my frontend.
>
> I rarely have to actually do a full boot.
>
> Michael
Would diskless machines be possible/practical if you had two or more
network-booting machines that required different configurations?
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