From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200108221719.NAA07318@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] standalone cpu/auth server??
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0108221144410.14515-100000@pali.cps.cmich.edu>
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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:19:48 -0400
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.30.0108221144410.14515-100000@pali.cps.cmich.edu> you write:
>On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Russ Cox wrote:
>
>> Something about your nvram is hosed.  Try doing
>> 	echo asdfasdfasdf >/dev/sdC1/nvram
>> and then reboot again.  If it still
>I have tried that. The boot messages change to
>boot: bad nvram key: file does not exist
>password:		(for which user???)

For bootes, of course.  :-)

>authid[no default]:

At this point, enter ``bootes'' or whatever auth user you're using.

>authdom[bootes]:

I'm not sure why the default is bootes here; normally, one enters
one's Internet domain.

>boot: #c/hostowner: bad arg in system
>call
>
>cpu# who
>
>none
>cpu#

It looks like the authid is a blank string here (ie, "").

>Also, I put print statments in /sys/src/9/boot/key.c after
>fd = open("#S/sdC1/nvram", ORDWR);
>and open is successful (fd is 3).
>
>Is it possible to have nvram on a disk other than sdC0?
>Can I use another cpu/auth server to boot this one (how)??

It looks like everything's okay, but you've got to enter the auth 
user's password and ID after zeroing out the nvram (I guess you're
not really zeroing it, but you know what I mean).

	- Dan C.