[mythtv-users] Myth experiences with Zotac ION + ATOM mobo

[Brian Long]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Mike
Perkins<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> Brian Long wrote:
>>
>> I've toyed with netboot using GPXE and since it supports HTTP
>> downloads of the initrd, it is lightning fast compared to standard
>> TFTP.  Playing around with MiniMyth and a slow VIA CPU, it boots in
>> 1-2 minutes which only happens if suspend/resume fails for some
>> reason.  I would plan to do the same should I purchase the ION
>> motherboard.
>>
> If it takes that long to boot minimyth, you're doing something wrong. I'm
> running a 1GHz LN10000EG board and it goes from button-press to first menu
> in 35 seconds. I'm using a standard TFTP and DHCP setup, although the server
> which runs these isn't a myth server. I have a 100Mhz ethernet network.

I never figured out the procedure to cache the theme images when
netboot'ing so each time it has to scale the theme images.  Like I
said, I was toying with it.  :)  The other thing I was hoping to do
was configure the MePO-wide Theme for Minimyth since it was not
bundled last I looked.  I use MePO-wide on my primary frontend and I'd
like the other frontend to have the same theme.

/Brian/