Openelec

I want an OpenELEC media PC for my TV. And I want it to boot over NFS...

Here goes!

Get your hands on a release!

I picked the v1.95.5 build from http://openelec.tv/get-openelec.

Investigate the release

$ tar -xvf OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5.tar.bz2 
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/LGPL2.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/GPL3.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/MIT_Modified.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/GPL.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/BSD_3_Clause.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/ATI.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/FDL1_2.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/MPL1_1.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/Artistic.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/LGPL3.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/Clarified_Artistic.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/Radeon_rlc.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/FDL.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/MIT.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/Public_Domain.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/GPL2.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/FDL1_3.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/Info-ZIP.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/NVIDIA.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/LGPL2_1.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/APSL.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/BSD_4_Clause.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/BSD_2_Clause.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/licenses/BSD.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/create_installstick
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/create_virtualimage
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/CHANGELOG
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/openelec.ico
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/README.md
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/extlinux.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/isolinux.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/CodingStyle.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/mboot.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/logo/
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/logo/syslinux-100.png
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/comboot.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/menu.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/rfc5071.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/pxelinux.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/gpt.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/syslinux.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/keytab-lilo.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/SubmittingPatches.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/memdisk.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/usbkey.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/distrib.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/doc/sdi.txt
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/win64/
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/win64/syslinux64.exe
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/NEWS
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/dos/
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/dos/syslinux.com
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/win32/
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/win32/syslinux.exe
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/syslinux/README
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/md5sum/
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/md5sum/md5sum.exe
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/3rdparty/md5sum/README
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/RELEASE
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/sample.conf/
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/sample.conf/extlinux.conf
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/sample.conf/grub.conf
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/sample.conf/syslinux.cfg
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/sample.conf/syslinux_installer.cfg
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/create_installstick.exe
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/target/
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/target/SYSTEM
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/target/KERNEL.md5
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/target/SYSTEM.md5
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/target/KERNEL
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/create_installstick.bat
OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/INSTALL

The OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/target/SYSTEM and OpenELEC-Generic.i386-1.95.5/target/KERNEL files are the most interesting here. The rest is really support fluff...