From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nvram on a diskless cpu server
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:28:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABwSpPCSWxe_9Xa2BJw=umEbDKok7GATQ64erKqVoxTaQrBsVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c7189dd5fd28e7e43eaebf635cf00ec@quintile.net>
That's a much more expensive and involved
method than tacking on a little USB key, to
which you've copied nvram data using `dd'.
ron's method above, with a simple
`dd -if nvram -of /dev/sdU0.0/data' and
three lines in plan9.ini did the trick.
No rotating disks.
The other problem is that my box has a
rusty power supply that seems incapable
of handling any IDE devices. Not sure
what's going on at this point, really. But
it does fine as a basic CPU server (more
of an interface to Plan 9 from other OS's).
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> i thoufgt th accepted way was, (assumping your machine has an IDE interface),
> to use an IDE to compact flash adapter and and a CF card, and store the
> nvram on this.
>
> this gives you the simple interface of IDE but no rotating disks.
>
> -Steve
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-11 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-10 21:49 Akshat Kumar
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 [this message]
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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