[mythtv-users] Another ECS Liva Review

[Calvin Dodge]

I always install the client version on frontend systems.  I did so on
a backend system, too, and adding mythtv to that was no problem.

Calvin Dodge

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
> Well, the beginning of one. I haven't even gotten to the Myth stuff yet.
>
> But the hardware is cute. Basically an X86 Raspberry Pi. And at $100 it's
> pretty close in price to a Raspberry Pi once you add storage, case, power,
> wifi, etc. to the Pi. All that is included with the Liva.
>
> My first hurdle was that this device is UEFI booting only. Whatever distro
> you pick must be relatively recent. My problem was that my preferred install
> method is to PXE boot into the installer. However UEFI require a specific
> PXE setup. This might help those needing to reconfigure their server:
>
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-netboot-pxe-config-efi.html
>
> Yeah, it's from Redhat, but the tools are pretty generic. I found my
> efidefault file needed to be in the root directory of the tftp server.
>
> The other hurdle is that UEFI booting uses GRUB and not the older PXE
> notation. You'll need to adapt to it in your efidefault file.
>
> So after getting that working, I found my preferred distro, CentOS, did not
> recognize the built in storage. Both CentOS 6 and CentOS 7. A short thread
> here:
>
> https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=53524
>
> The eMMC chips are just not recognized. So, being comfortable with Redhat, I
> installed Fedora 21. It recognized the chips just fine and Fedora21-Server
> installed without complaint.
>
> So now I struggle with Fedora. The server package seems to be missing most
> of the xorg-x11 packages and much of the desktop stuff. We soldier on.
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