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Date: Fri,  9 Jun 2006 02:31:42 +0200
From: Adriano Verardo <a.verardo@tecmav.com>
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Subject: [9fans] Diskless cpu servers
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Hi, all.

My i386 CPU servers have no magnetic/flash storage. The only solution I 
found to boot them
without human intervention has been to add the driver of a "fake" nvram.
It works but I'm not sure it's a good idea, because it entails to modify 
libauth
to insert the new device in the list searched by factotum, wrkey etc.
Instead,  I think it would be better to get the result only by adding 
files, without modifying the distribution.
A more elegant solution with no consequences on the normal update 
activity by replica/pull.

Did  anyone face the same boot problem in the past ?
Any suggestion ?

Thanks in advance

Adriano