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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe booting net4801
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:11:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec81a5fbed4a8386fa4fb4314c63ee0c@plug.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009222323.40859.0intro@gmail.com>

On Wed Sep 22 18:37:17 EDT 2010, 0intro@gmail.com wrote:
> > Another thing to check would be the usage of a piece of a CF
> > card as NVRAM.
>
> I use a NVRAM on the CompactFlash on my Soekris net5501.
>
> I created a FAT partition on the CompactFlash holding the file "plan9.nvr",
> then I added the following lines to my CPU server plan9.ini.
>
> nvram=#S/sdC1/dos!plan9.nvr
> nvrlen=512
> nvroff=0
>
> It works like a charm.

why not partition the CF like a normal disk?

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-23  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-21 21:41 frank
2010-09-22  3:29 ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-22  5:55   ` frank
2010-09-22  5:57     ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-22 20:01   ` frank
2010-09-22 21:09     ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-22 21:23     ` David du Colombier
2010-09-23  1:11       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-09-23  6:31         ` David du Colombier
2010-09-23 13:11           ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-23  8:19   ` David du Colombier
2010-09-23 12:59     ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-23 13:51       ` David du Colombier

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