From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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Subject: Re: [9fans] EPIA CPU node success
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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
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Date: Thu,  6 Nov 2003 00:17:54 -0500
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> I have one thing I'd like to do, subject to someone telling me it's a bad
> idea. I'm thinking of writing a small C program that does the equivalent
> set of steps as the 'disk/fdisk -p blah blah ; disk/prep -p blah blah'
> that are currently done in scripts. This would make it so I could move
> nvram to the CF instead of CMOS. Comments?

9load does this for you.  just copy the relevant code out of 9load
(look for "partition") and drop it into /sys/src/9/boot or something.