[mythtv-users] Quick-boot linux?

Rich West Rich.West at wesmo.com
Mon Feb 18 21:01:28 UTC 2008


Mark J. Small wrote:
> On February 18, 2008, Ronald Frazier wrote:
>   
>>> How long does your distro take to boot into MythFrontend?
>>>       
>> About a 80-90 seconds. This is a debian lenny box doing a diskless boot.
>>
>>     
>>> Can anyone recommend a cut-down distro that would boot in under 20 secs
>>> straight into Myth...is that possible at the moment?
>>>       
>> One way is to use suspend to ram. That the approach I'm taking. Then
>> you only have to tolerate a full reboot time if the power goes out.
>>     
>
> 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...
>
> I've been planning to try to get S2RAM working on my diskless frontend (a 700 
> MHz Pentium III). I'd really like to have it on nearly instantly.  In that 
> case, I would turn it off a lot more often, and save lotsa power.
>
> Now if only I could power it on/revive it with my remote, without investing 
> even more money in this little hobby.


Power on via the remote would be a wonderful thing!

-Rich



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