From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Diskless cpu servers
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:13:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4488F56D.9030203@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4488C16E.3050404@tecmav.com>
Adriano Verardo wrote:
> 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
>
on the geodes I just added the entry to have it look at #r/nvram. Worked
fine. I lost the patch, but it was trivial.
You may not have room in your CMOS, depending on what your fuctory bios
does with it.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-09 4:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-09 0:31 Adriano Verardo
2006-06-09 0:35 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-06-09 14:41 ` Adriano Verardo
2006-06-09 4:13 ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
[not found] ` <000b01c68b7b$503cadb0$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local>
2006-06-09 7:58 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-06-09 13:02 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-09 13:09 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-06-09 13:23 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-09 13:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-06-09 14:43 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-09 13:42 ` Adriano Verardo
2006-06-09 13:53 ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-06-09 9:22 ` Steve Simon
2006-06-09 10:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-06-09 13:28 ` Adriano Verardo
2006-06-09 13:03 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-10 18:32 ` Adriano Verardo
2006-06-09 14:30 jmk
2006-06-09 16:54 ` Dave Lukes
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