[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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