From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] memory stick
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Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:24:27 -0600
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On Wed, 28 May 2003, boyd, rounin wrote:

> i just put the whole [non tex] dist on it and have it booted [from disk]
> on my 600 series VAIO.  needs a big of tinkering, but booting
> _straight_ off the memory stick on a randomly chosen machine
> would be a _cool thing_;  walk up to machine, jam in memory
> stick and boot plan 9 :)

ya. very cool. we're doing similar with the CF stuff.

Hey, I found out what happens when you mess up the CMOS NVRAM with bad
keys etc. You have to zero CMOS, and then to make it a CPU again you have
to have good keys. No other option. That's good.

ron