Re: [9fans] nvram

[sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>]

2009/7/29 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
>> Hmm.  A few years ago, I ran into a similar problem and added a
>> variable that could be set in plan9.ini to specify where the nvram
>> actually is.  It works reasonably well....
>
> difficult to maintain in a pretty active environment;
> one more reason for boot failure.

 Speaking of, I had a disk in my server die recently, and eventually
it affected the nvram partition. So of course, when I booted up it
couldn't read it and prompted me for the auth credentials, then tried
to write back to nvram, got an i/o error and rebooted.
 The reboot could have been caused by some other problem shortly after
(the motherboard seems to have given up on me also), but it raised the
question - does an unsuccesful write to nvram halt the boot process?
-sqweek