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: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:02:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44897182.50308@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44892A2C.40008@Utel.no>
Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:
> 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
yes, but the issue we hit here was that you can't really use all of
CMOS. The first <xy> bits are used for other things. So you have to
fiddle a bit.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-09 13:02 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
[not found] ` <000b01c68b7b$503cadb0$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local>
2006-06-09 7:58 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-06-09 13:02 ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
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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