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Date: Fri,  9 Jun 2006 09:58:36 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Diskless cpu servers
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Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 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.

Would this be of any help ?

cpu% man plan9.ini|grep nvram
         nvram=file
           This is used to specify an nvram device and optionally the