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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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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