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From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] nvram on a diskless cpu server
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:49:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABwSpPBEZ=AViOjj++=tt4UVphSePA4sk3p0c31wtr++ph5Y+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I just took all the disks out of my cpu server.

I'm booting from my fileserver. I get the following
prompts (which make the bootup process really
non-automated):

readnvram: couldn't find nvram
can't open <nil>: unknown device in # filename
authid: bootes
authdom: mydom
secstore:
password:
can't write key to nvram: unknown device in # filename

So is there any way to put this data into /dev/nvram
for the server to read from there? Or is there no way
to make this truly "diskless"?


Thanks,
ak



             reply	other threads:[~2011-07-10 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-10 21:49 Akshat Kumar [this message]
2011-07-10 21:55 ` ron minnich
2011-07-10 22:03   ` Akshat Kumar
     [not found] ` <CAP6exYLGYwhUnJy6LAWVqs25X+Gj9UNO+eTT+rC-rNrB2C1eOA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-10 22:04   ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-10 22:10     ` Akshat Kumar
2011-07-10 22:13       ` ron minnich
2011-07-10 22:20         ` Akshat Kumar
2011-07-10 22:34           ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-07-10 23:25             ` ron minnich
2011-07-11  7:19               ` Steve Simon
2011-07-11  9:28                 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-07-11  9:43                   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-07-11 10:59                 ` hiro
     [not found]                 ` <CABwSpPCSWxe_9Xa2BJw=umEbDKok7GATQ64erKqVoxTaQrBsVA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-11 14:54                   ` erik quanstrom
     [not found]             ` <CABwSpPB3xm88pV5kDgKTTUYYJtgmiFqCi1Y57cLTp80W_BpwJw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-10 23:30               ` [9fans] Fwd: " Akshat Kumar
2011-07-10 23:45                 ` ron minnich
2011-07-10 22:11     ` [9fans] " ron minnich

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