[mythtv-users] Network boot

Andrew Ruthven andrew at etc.gen.nz
Tue Jan 13 21:50:57 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 07:44 -0800, 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.

A good trick is to make sure that you have a PXE config file which the
first name that PXE looks for, not just default.  Otherwise it takes a
while trying a bunch of different options before it falls back to
default.

This shaved probably 10 seconds off my network boot time.

Cheers!

-- 
Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand
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