From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] nvram
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:08:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b6b8ea49323771ca2e1ecd39f31ad43@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <140e7ec30907300905p387e3403me05bd8168279a723@mail.gmail.com>
> 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?
no. it happens to me all the time. (when there is no
place to write nvram, as when no disk is partitioned.)
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-30 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-28 17:58 Lyndon Nerenberg
2009-07-28 18:08 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-28 18:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-29 13:43 ` Dan Cross
2009-07-29 13:48 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-30 16:05 ` sqweek
2009-07-30 16:08 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-07-30 16:22 ` sqweek
2009-07-30 17:58 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-30 18:12 ` Steve Simon
2009-07-30 18:45 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-28 21:59 ` Adriano Verardo
2009-07-28 18:09 ` ron minnich
2009-07-28 19:24 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-28 22:38 ` ron minnich
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-12 14:48 Sergey Reva
2005-05-12 15:10 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-05-12 16:47 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-05-12 23:52 ` Dan Cross
2005-04-03 12:50 Sergey Reva
2005-04-03 13:39 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-03 14:44 ` Sergey Reva
2005-04-03 15:07 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-04 10:03 ` C H Forsyth
2005-04-03 16:47 ` Sergey Reva
2003-08-26 21:17 [9fans] NVRAM Kenji Arisawa
2003-08-26 22:22 ` zfolkerts
2003-08-26 22:37 ` Kenji Arisawa
2003-08-26 22:49 ` ron minnich
2003-08-26 23:06 ` Kenji Arisawa
2000-09-06 23:21 [9fans] nvram Russ Cox
2000-09-06 23:33 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 23:00 jmk
2000-09-06 23:05 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 13:24 [9fans] Re: Kernighan interview (w/ Plan 9 mention) forsyth
2000-09-06 22:47 ` [9fans] nvram Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 22:52 ` Boyd Roberts
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