2009/7/31 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>: >> 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.)
OK, but you won't hit an error in that case either. I was wondering whether the i/o problem was tripping it up. -sqweek
