From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] "Can't read from nvram: /env/nvrof file does not exist"
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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:13:47 -0600
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Russ Cox wrote:

> the open might fail because you typed
> the wrong value for $nvram, or perhaps
> it fails because the open is ORDWR?
> i doubt the ide driver is smart
> enough to know that flash is only OREAD,
> so i don't think this is it.


no this is compact flash, and it should work. There is something weird
going on.

I assume plan 9 partitions use:
- sector 0, 0-511 bytes, for MBR
- sector 1, 512-1023 bytes, for plan9 partitioning

is that it?

I may try writing this under linux and see what shakes.

ron