[mythtv-users] Network boot

[Mike Perkins]

Paul Bender wrote:
> Mitch Gore wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Carl Gilbert
>>> <clg-social at rigidsoftware.com> wrote:
>>>> How long does a network booting frontend take to boot up?
>> On boot up you get about a 30 sec period where your pxe network card
>> is getting an address and downloading the kernel.  Once that is loaded
>> its exactly the same as local.
> 
> That sounds somewhat long. On my systems, it takes about 15 seconds from 
>   the time that the BIOS enters network boot mode until the system has 
> loaded the kernel and root file system (a squashfs) into RAM. After 
> that, it takes about 20 seconds until the Myth frontend GUI is up and 
> running.
> 
Agreed. I also run some LTSP 4.2 terminals here, and it's 40 seconds from 
power-on to login window, something which amazed the wife, who is used to making 
a coffee while Windows comes up.

Paul, "until the Myth frontend GUI is up and running" carefully omits the fact 
that, on my minimyth system anyway, the front end spends longer building the 
theme cache, twice, than it does booting up. Is there something magic I've not 
figured out how to do? Isn't the cache, well, cached anywhere?

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Mike Perkins