Since the early days, most troubleshooting procedures on real Macs involve "zapping the PRAM".

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1242

But where is the PRAM on a Hack?

Are the contents written to a file somewhere?

And what about the NVRAM...or is NVRAM and PRAM the same thing?

As far as I'm aware, this is handled by the custom Apple EFI, and is exclusive to the Mac hardware/firmware, not the software.

That is, it's limited to real Macs with real EFI, not regular PC's with BIOS's.

Thanks, that makes sense.

But then - since we can't have this functionality, what happens with the settings that were supposed to go in PRAM/NVRAM?

Where are these settings stored on a PC running OS X?

EDIT - why can't I reply to this topic?

I wonder if some kind of software redirection to a file would be useful on a Hack. Whatever is stored there must be important.

I'm guessing it would require a lot of skill and knowledge to write a driver that intercepts something that goes on at such a low level.

they would go into EFI nvram, which happens to be at a different memory address on macs, so i guess they either never get written (because of lack of EFI interface), or they just get written to normal ram