<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Jim Stichnoth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stichnot@gmail.com" target="_blank">stichnot@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Calvin Dodge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caldodge@gmail.com" target="_blank">caldodge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Right now I'd say the answer is "no, it's not worth it", given that<br>
Newegg currently has the 32G/2G ECS Liva on sale for $79.99.<br><br></blockquote></span><div>Thanks for that hot tip. For $80 I couldn't resist buying one to try out.</div><div><br></div><div>After some fiddling, I got it to PXE-boot Ubuntu 14.04 like the other ION-based frontends. Strangely, it works for about 3-4 minutes after downloading the initrd.img file before it gets into the actual boot process. But once it's running mythfrontend, it's just as responsive as the ION frontends.</div><div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Has anyone gotten this ECS Liva to PXE-boot at a reasonable speed? Or solved similar slow-PXE-boot problems for other Linux systems?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It looks like the tftp download of the kernel and initrd files is extremely slow. Downloading syslinux.efi (200KB) is fast enough, as is ldlinux.e64 (140KB). The vmlinuz file is 6.3MB and appears to take about 11 seconds to download. The initrd.img file is almost 20MB and appears to take about 200 seconds (!) to download. But once the system boots, the network is plenty fast - more than 500 Mb/s with scp. Here are relevant server logs:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:32:07 mythmaster dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from b8:ae:ed:32:af:86 via eth0</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:32:07 mythmaster dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.210 to b8:ae:ed:32:af:86 via eth0</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:32:10 mythmaster dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.210 (192.168.0.216) from b8:ae:ed:32:af:86 via eth0</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:32:10 mythmaster dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.210 to b8:ae:ed:32:af:86 via eth0</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:32:10 mythmaster in.tftpd[32686]: RRQ from ::ffff:192.168.0.210 filename syslinux.efi</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:32:10 mythmaster in.tftpd[32686]: tftp: client does not accept options</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:32:10 mythmaster in.tftpd[32687]: RRQ from ::ffff:192.168.0.210 filename syslinux.efi</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:32:10 mythmaster in.tftpd[32688]: RRQ from ::ffff:192.168.0.210 filename ldlinux.e64</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:32:10 mythmaster in.tftpd[32689]: RRQ from ::ffff:192.168.0.210 filename pxelinux.cfg/01-b8-ae-ed-32-af-86</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:32:10 mythmaster in.tftpd[32690]: RRQ from ::ffff:192.168.0.210 filename vmlinuz-3.16.0-36-generic</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:32:21 mythmaster in.tftpd[32691]: RRQ from ::ffff:192.168.0.210 filename initrd.img-3.16.0-36-generic</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:35:45 mythmaster dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from b8:ae:ed:32:af:86 via eth0<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:35:45 mythmaster dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.210 to b8:ae:ed:32:af:86 via eth0</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:35:45 mythmaster dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.210 (192.168.0.216) from b8:ae:ed:32:af:86 via eth0</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jun 30 07:35:45 mythmaster dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.210 to b8:ae:ed:32:af:86 via eth0</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My other non-UEFI frontends use pxelinux.0 for PXE booting, which loads vmlinux and initrd.img in just a few seconds. Since the ECS Liva requires UEFI booting, I downloaded syslinux-6.03 and grabbed syslinux-6.03/efi64/efi/syslinux.efi and syslinux-6.03/efi64/com32/elflink/ldlinux/ldlinux.e64.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Any ideas, or good experience reports?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jim</div></div></div></div>