On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:21:39PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >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). thats a good idea.. out of curiosity does the beige G3 have this problem? if so how did apple work around it? as OSX must boot via OF and not MacOS. or is thier `solution' to force users to just run SystemDisk every time they reboot? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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