On Thu Jul 30 14:13:18 EDT 2009, st...@quintile.net wrote:
> no it doesn't, I had this a few days ago, moving disks about so
> nvram couldn't be found. I could still boot the system but I had to enter
> the nvram info from the keyboard, it did then try to write the data back
> which (of course) fails - perhaps it was this write to a dead disk that
> caused the boot process to die.
i hate to disagree. but i think you may have typed your
auth information incorrectly — that does cause a panic. but not having
a plan9.nvr or nvram partition does not. here's a demo i
just ran:
baxley# 9fat:
baxley# rm /n/9fat/plan9.nvr
baxley# echo reboot>/dev/reboot
[...]
2040M memory: 108M kernel data, 1931M user, 2556M swap
sdE0: LBA 3,931,200 sectors
SATADOM H Type rs1.a000 20090504AA0000000013 [newdrive]
readnvram: couldn't find nvram
can't read nvram: unknown device in # filename
authid: bootes
authdom: plan9.quanstro.net
secstore key:
password:
can't write key to nvram: unknown device in # filename
version...time...
nit: starting /bin/rc
baxley#
now if i mistype my auth information, i get
version...authpanic: boot process died: unknown
entication failed (auth_proxy rpc write: : bad key), trying mount
anyways
boot: mount /: attach -- unknown user or failed authentication
dumpstack
unfortunately, at this point i'm stuck in a reboot loop and
i can only disconnect the offending media.
- erik
