From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] simple questions
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:31:38 -0700
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 presotto@closedmind.org wrote:

> In general, it should be asking you for a password file
> regardless even if you're running a 9pc or 9pcdisk.  It just
> doesn't care what the answer is if you aren't connecting
> to any external resources.  How do you know its looking for
> an nvram file/partition?


It says 'can't open nvram' or something like that. I don't have it here at
the moment and I forget the exact wording.

Andrey has made me some recommendations for things to try. The disk I'm
using seems to be a bit frazzled so I may just upgrade first and start
over -- this is a pretty old distribution on this machine.

thanks

ron