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From: Adriano Verardo <a.verardo@tecmav.com>
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Charles Forsyth wrote:

>you can set the nvram environment variable (eg, in plan9.ini) to the
>name of the nvram file, so you don't need to change libauthsrv source
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>it wasn't clear where your system got its plan9.ini file though.
>presumably you haven't got even a diskette drive.
>are you booting over ether?
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Yes. I use Etherboot burned on the NICs EPROMS and a patched version
of 9pxeload. The CPUs boot from the file server as usual.
The "nvram" is just a statically initialized char[] in the downloaded 
kernel.

Adriano