[Milhouse]

Yes, Raspbmc does restart, but at almost 40 seconds before XBMC main menu appears, this is one heck of a wait.

Just ran a test with Raspbmc, and it inserts a 10 second delay before restarting XBMC in order for the user to start a console. You can eliminate the 10 second delay by commenting out the following line in /scripts/xbmc-watchdog.sh:

Code:

read -sn 1 -t 10 press < /dev/tty1

With the above 10 second delay removed, xbmc on Raspbmc only takes about 5 seconds longer to re-start than OpenELEC (with a 1GHz ARM overclock) - 20 seconds rather than 15 seconds. Maybe it could be added as an option to include the 10 second wait, or not.