[mythtv-users] Quick-boot linux?

[Ronald Frazier]

> Do you have any issues with the NFS root + S2RAM combination?  Were there
> gotchas involved? I've always been a tad nervous about that one...

Well, I haven't used it a whole lot, though it seems to work fine from
all my testing. I'm just no putting that box into production, so I'll
see how it works out long term. I'm a bit curious to see how well it
resumes the nfs share after its been off for a couple of days. If that
doesn't work out in the long run, my next bet is to just get one of
those compact flash to sata adapters. The box it virtually silent, and
I'm not anxious to add a hard drive to the thing.

The only gotcha that was specific to diskless suspend was just the
network card issue. Something gets corrupted if you suspend while it's
active. After that you can't even modprobe -r to remove the
driver...it just hangs. Unloading the driver first works, but
again...thats not really an option on diskless. I had some extra Intel
Pro/100 Desktop cards handy. Installed one of those and it worked
flawlessly.


> Now if only I could power it on/revive it with my remote, without investing
> even more money in this little hobby.

Yeah, thats what I want to do to. Although, as you can see in my other
recent thread about the USB-UIRT thats not exactly working out for me
like I had hoped. Still haven't received any response on that one. I
think it's time I update the wiki to make sure nobody else makes the
same mistake as me.

-- 
Ron