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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:11:44 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe booting net4801
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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