> 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
