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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:53:13 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] the mysterious bios change
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On Mon Aug 19 12:25:33 EDT 2013, a@9srv.net wrote:
> Erik's explanation certainly makes sense, but here's an
> alternative possibility. In the past, I've set up the bios on
> a system a certain way, then accidentally written to
> #r/nvram (which isn't really useful on a PC), and had the
> bios reset to factory defaults. Behavior of the bios after
> writing that file is bios-dependent, but it's easy to test.

i happen to have that machine, and i have not seen that
behavior with any version of bios up to 1.2a.

perhaps we haven't written to #r/nvram.

- erik