Joined: 21 Jan 2017 Posts: 1782 Location: Illinois Moderator
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 21:59 Post subject:
WRONG: Yes each partition has its own nvram.
Correct: NVRAM is shared between the two partitions, so be very careful in reverting when mappings change...see my next comments for when nvram settings changed...
That's what I expected, but I wanted to ask first.
I spent two hours today experimenting with this. These recent releases are stepping on the nvram in the "other" partition. I tried 44048 in partition 1, with the latest version (45229) in partition 2. Any change to anything on partition 2 and, on booting back into partition 1, I'm prompted to set the admin creds and my settings are all gone.
I can put 44048 in both partition with different settings no problem, changing settings, switching back and forth between partitions, etc. Settings are retained.
Joined: 21 Jan 2017 Posts: 1782 Location: Illinois Moderator
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 0:40 Post subject:
The nvram mappings changed between those builds at 44910 and you likely spawned nvram gremlins. Try the new 45229 build and perform a factory reset and reload all your settings. _________________ FORUM RULES
Joined: 04 Aug 2018 Posts: 1444 Location: Appalachian mountains, USA
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:31 Post subject:
Agree with blkt. nvram is shared. I learned it the hard way, by assuming otherwise and screwing everything up. Eventually I did careful experiments to verify that there is only one, shared, nvram configuration space. _________________ 2x Netgear XR500 and 3x Linksys WRT1900ACSv2 on 53544: VLANs, VAPs, NAS, station mode, OpenVPN client (AirVPN), wireguard server (AirVPN port forward) and clients (AzireVPN, AirVPN, private), 3 DNSCrypt providers via VPN.