I just remembered about this:
http://rs-rlab.narod.ru/9nvram.html
Federico G. Benavento
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Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:
Ronald G Minnich wrote:
Adriano Verardo wrote:
Hi, all.
My i386 CPU servers have no magnetic/flash storage. The only
solution I found to boot them
without human intervention has been to add the driver of a "fake"
nvram.
It works but I'm not sure it's a good idea, because it entails to
modify libauth
to insert the new device in the list searched by factotum, wrkey etc.
Instead, I think it would be better to get the result only by
adding files, without modifying the distribution.
A more elegant solution with no consequences on the normal update
activity by replica/pull.
Would this be of any help ?
cpu% man plan9.ini|grep nvram
nvram=file
This is used to specify an nvram device and optionally the
The .ini file is downloaded by 9pxeload (/cfg/<macaddr>) .
I could add
nvram= #Z/fknvram
nvrlen=...
nvroff=...
in the ini files and choose a driver letter not used for i386 (instead
of 'Z').
This way I could restore the original libauth etc
Correct ?
Adriano
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