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

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