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Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:49:48 -0700
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From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: [9fans] nvram on a diskless cpu server
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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