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From: David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe booting net4801
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:23:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009222323.40859.0intro@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100922200111.GA7689@chiron.galaxy>

> Another thing to check would be the usage of a piece of a CF
> card as NVRAM.

I use a NVRAM on the CompactFlash on my Soekris net5501.

I created a FAT partition on the CompactFlash holding the file "plan9.nvr",
then I added the following lines to my CPU server plan9.ini.

nvram=#S/sdC1/dos!plan9.nvr
nvrlen=512
nvroff=0

It works like a charm.

--
David du Colombier



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-22 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-21 21:41 frank
2010-09-22  3:29 ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-22  5:55   ` frank
2010-09-22  5:57     ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-22 20:01   ` frank
2010-09-22 21:09     ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-22 21:23     ` David du Colombier [this message]
2010-09-23  1:11       ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-23  6:31         ` David du Colombier
2010-09-23 13:11           ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-23  8:19   ` David du Colombier
2010-09-23 12:59     ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-23 13:51       ` David du Colombier

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