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From: Alberto =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cort=E9s?= <alcortes@coitt.es>
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Subject: [9fans] boot.c -> bad nvram key
Date: Sun,  7 Mar 2004 15:12:50 +0100
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I have make a new installation of a plan 9 terminal in a clean disk
(actually, it is a vmware "machine").

After loading the kernel, boot(8) prints these lines:

> root is from (il, tcp, local)[local!#S/sdC0/fs]:
> user[none]: glenda
> kfs...bad nvram key
> bad authentication id
> bad authentication domain
> version...time...

And then init(8) is executed and everything seems to work ok. I do
not know what those "bad foo bar" lines mean. Does it have something
to do with boot(8) trying authenticate with the local root server?

I have been looking at /sys/src/9/boot/boot.c and
/sys/src/9/boot/bootauth.c but i can not identify the problem, i think
it is somewhere between these lines (from boot.c):

> /*
> * pick a method and initialize it
> */
> mp = rootserver(argc ? *argv : 0);
> (*mp->config)(mp);
> islocal = strcmp(mp->name, "local") == 0;
> ishybrid = strcmp(mp->name, "hybrid") == 0;
> 
> /*
> * authentication agent
> */
> authentication(cpuflag);
>
> /*
> * connect to the root file system
> */
> fd = (*mp->connect)();
> if(fd < 0)
>       fatal("can't connect)();
> if(getenv("srvold9p"))
>       fd = old9p(fd);
> if(!islocal && !ishybrid){
>        if(cfs)
>              fd = (*cfs)(fd);
> }

I am not skilled enough for solving this, any pointers, explanations
or recommendations?

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