I just took all the disks out of my cpu server.
I'm booting from my fileserver. I get the following
prompts (which make the bootup process really
non-automated):
readnvram: couldn't find nvram
can't open : unknown device in # filename
authid: bootes
authdom: mydom
secstore:
password:
can't write
Some time ago I modified the rtc driver so we could use '#r/nvram'
(oh, gosh, this was almost 10 years ago but ...) so that we could use
the CMOS to store this stuff. Maybe it's time for another look.
ron
It seems Andrey did this some time ago as well:
http://mirtchovski.com/lanlp9/flash/index.html
Are there any patches in the repo that have survived
this? I know that for SPARC computers #r/nvram is the
place to look. Perhaps the story on x86 machines is
a bit more difficult?
Thanks,
ak
On Sun,
On Sun Jul 10 17:56:42 EDT 2011, rminn...@gmail.com wrote:
> Some time ago I modified the rtc driver so we could use '#r/nvram'
> (oh, gosh, this was almost 10 years ago but ...) so that we could use
> the CMOS to store this stuff. Maybe it's time for another look.
vorsicht! there's a lot of magi
Well, I don't have a dedicated AoE for secure keys.
Alternatively, can I store the keys on a little USB
device? Does it require anything more than a change
to the INI (in this case PXE) file?
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:04 PM, erik quanstrom
wrote:
> On Sun Jul 10 17:56:42 EDT 2011, rminn...@gmail
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:04 PM, erik quanstrom
wrote:
> vorsicht! there's a lot of magic stuff in the rtc. and where the magic
> bits are depends on your particular special bios.
Sure. but it's been done. We did it.
ron
yeah, the usb would be a great place to store it! Then you can easily
rewrite the key ...
ron
Sure, but how do mounting and reading and all
that jazz, work on boot?
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:13 PM, ron minnich wrote:
> yeah, the usb would be a great place to store it! Then you can easily
> rewrite the key ...
>
> ron
>
>
write to the raw disk, and use the device name for nvram in plan9.ini
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Akshat Kumar
wrote:
> Sure, but how do mounting and reading and all
> that jazz, work on boot?
>
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:13 PM, ron minnich wrote:
>> yeah, the usb would be a great place t
and of course the other option is to put a file named 'nvram' into the
image and use that. usually the easiest.
ron
I asked this of nemo, should have
forwarded here as well:
-- Forwarded message --
Hi Francisco,
Doesn't authsrv itself write to the raw data file
you provide in `nvram=' in plan9.ini? Otherwise,
what would be the format to do so manually?
Also, what does "device name" mean in th
term% cd /tmp
term% dd -bs 512 -count 1 < /dev/zero > nvram
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
term% nvram=nvram
term% xd nvram
000
010
etc.
term% auth/wrkey
bad nvram key
bad authentication id
bad authentication domai
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:56 AM, dexen deVries wrote:
> on plan9port:
> % echo foobar | 9 grep '$JUNK'
> -> foobar
>
> that is, p9p grep matches any line with regular expression in form of
> $ANY_REGEX
>
> why is it so?
It's an ancient bug in the Plan 9 grep, a complication
of the way Ken impleme
To assign proper credit, I learned that trick from the 264x terminals
manufactured by HP in the mid-to-late 70s. In those days most computer
fans still used AC motors, so HP operated 240 VAC muffin fans at 120 VAC
to exhaust the terminal heat in a virtually silent fashion. Modern
(brushless DC moto
For AoE reasons, I need to combine
a mirror (of a partition of a disk and
a whole disk) with another partition
of a disk, in a way that the combination
looks like a disk in itself.
Has anyone tried such a thing with fs(3)?
I have a mirror:
mirror m0 /dev/sdD1/data /dev/sdC0/worm
at /dev/fs/m0, a
On Sun Jul 10 22:58:01 EDT 2011, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote:
> For AoE reasons, I need to combine
> a mirror (of a partition of a disk and
> a whole disk) with another partition
> of a disk, in a way that the combination
> looks like a disk in itself.
>
> Has anyone tried such a thing with
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 8:05 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> there are several simple options
> - write a little sd driver. see sdloop(3) for
> a prototype.
Ah, so such a thing can't be done simply
with some fs(3) configuration?
The sd driver would concatenate the specified
list of files, and keep
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