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Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]



>i am not sure if its the disk based MacOS that trashes nvram or the
>ROM based MacOS that does.  if its ROM based then the MacOS version is
>irrelevent, if the ROM is ever run, regardless of whether it even
>finds a copy of macos on any disk, the nvram will be reset.  
>
>someone was saying on irc the other day that one of them had some bug
>in its nvram checksum check, so it always thought the checksum was
>invalid and thus reset it.  if this bug lives in the ROM (which i
>suspect) there is nothing Apple can do to fix it (not that they would
>care).  

One solution here is to write a MacOS INIT that installs a "shutdown
proc" and restore back NVRAM setting when MacOS is shutdown (or
restarted).

Ben.




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