On January 11, 2006 03:51 pm, James C. Dastrup wrote: > >HI everybody, > > > >I've been thinking about the things that still bother me about my mythtv > >setup, and the worst one is definately boot time on the frontend. It > > takes my P3-733 a couple of minutes to boot fully in to mythtv. > > > >I was hoping that some sort of hibernation/suspend to disk setup would > > help me with this. > > > >Does anyone out there do this sort of thing? Any mythtv related caveats? > >How about root over NFS? > > > >My system has a hard drive that I boot from, and then spin down. I > > suppose I could spin it back up to do the suspend to disk... > > > >How much faster would a resume be than a full boot? > > > >Mark > > I've done this using Suspend2 (http://www.suspend2.net/) and it works just > fine suspending to disk. Definitely speeds up the boot-up process. > > I haven't been able to get it working with my P3 HT frontend, since it > doesn't seem to like SMP, although it's supposed to work.
Thanks for the reply. I was looking at suspend2, but having to unmount my nfs root drive first kind of scared me. Wouldn't that mean I have to stop all of the services before suspending, then restart them on resume. That part takes up most of the boot time doesn't it? Would I gain anything? Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
