Re: Getting boottime early in booting

On Fri, Apr 3, 2026, 7:05 PM Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm fiddling with a NFSv4 diskless root fs setup and I've run
> into a couple of challenges.
>
> 1 - I need a value that will be different each time the machine boots.
>      I would normally use getboottime(), but for the NFS root fs mount,
>      it just returns 0.
>      Any ideas w.r.t. something I can acquire early in booting that will
>      change each time the system is booted?
>

We don't have this today. And we can't have it without hardware assist...
though you may be ok enough with a value from the rtc.

There's work to pass the vale from the monotonicly increasing counter uefi
provides. But not on all platforms.

Warner

2 - Does anyone know how to fix "could not determine audit condition"
>      which I get whenever I try and login when it is multiuser?
>      (I can run single user, but since I can't login once it's multiuser??)
>
> Thanks for any help with these, rick
>
>