On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg<lyn...@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?
years back I modified the library so that it could use the cmos nvram. no more disk. We used this when Andrey put plan 9 in FLASH. It was nice to not have any spinning media for nvram. It gets a little tricky because cmos is not sane in where you can store bits, but it's doable. ron ron
