From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] nvram
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:08:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed05e2587e339f5d4eea7b54ce93419f@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0907281154100.17462@tascal.biz>
On Tue Jul 28 14:00:22 EDT 2009, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
> Okay, it's authsrv(2) that describes the nvram search sequence. And for
> whatever reason I had it in my head that these days it was possible to
> grab the nvram across the wire, which in hindsight makes no sense
> whatsoever. And now that I think about it, my last (2ed) 'diskless' CPU
> server had a floppy drive in it for this very reason ...
>
> Doncha just love PC hardware?
ya. we use small flash drives from memorydepot.com for this.
but if price is really the limiter, not power or anything else,
you may prefer to use a regular hard drive. or, i think you
could use sdloop to mount a usb key on boot and put your
nvram on that. that might be complicated due to boot ordering
problems.
i guess i need to update this man page. i didn't recall the
search algorithm was documented. thanks for pointing that out.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-28 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-28 17:58 Lyndon Nerenberg
2009-07-28 18:08 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-07-28 18:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-29 13:43 ` Dan Cross
2009-07-29 13:48 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-30 16:05 ` sqweek
2009-07-30 16:08 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-30 16:22 ` sqweek
2009-07-30 17:58 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-30 18:12 ` Steve Simon
2009-07-30 18:45 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-28 21:59 ` Adriano Verardo
2009-07-28 18:09 ` ron minnich
2009-07-28 19:24 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-28 22:38 ` ron minnich
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-12 14:48 Sergey Reva
2005-05-12 15:10 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-05-12 16:47 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-05-12 23:52 ` Dan Cross
2005-04-03 12:50 Sergey Reva
2005-04-03 13:39 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-03 14:44 ` Sergey Reva
2005-04-03 15:07 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-04 10:03 ` C H Forsyth
2005-04-03 16:47 ` Sergey Reva
2003-08-26 21:17 [9fans] NVRAM Kenji Arisawa
2003-08-26 22:22 ` zfolkerts
2003-08-26 22:37 ` Kenji Arisawa
2003-08-26 22:49 ` ron minnich
2003-08-26 23:06 ` Kenji Arisawa
2000-09-06 23:21 [9fans] nvram Russ Cox
2000-09-06 23:33 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 23:00 jmk
2000-09-06 23:05 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 13:24 [9fans] Re: Kernighan interview (w/ Plan 9 mention) forsyth
2000-09-06 22:47 ` [9fans] nvram Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 22:52 ` Boyd Roberts
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