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I've had a Macbook Pro for a year or so now and have experimented with quite a few Linux distributions which have added and changed things in the EFI Boot Order. I am looking to clean things up. The tool efibootmgr for Linux does let me make changes and cleanup as necessary. However will resetting NVRAM reset the EFI Boot Order for me?

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  • AFIK only OSX system reinstall does that.
    – Ruskes
    Sep 13, 2018 at 18:38

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NVRAM is a standalone chip on your logic board, backed up by small battery.

EFI resides on your SSD. (hard drive)

Showing battery for the PRAM (NVRAM)

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So no, resetting NVRAM will not impact EFI.

To restore EFI, you have to reinstall the OS X.

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  • I'm pretty sure "Which OS should I boot by default" is at least sometimes stored in an NVRAM variable. In Hackintosh systems, if emulated nvram isn't working properly, changing the startup disk won't work.
    – Wowfunhappy
    Sep 13, 2018 at 21:14
  • @Wowfunhappy you mean from which disk not which OS
    – Ruskes
    Sep 13, 2018 at 21:17
  • Well, this applies to different partitions on the same disk as well.
    – Wowfunhappy
    Sep 14, 2018 at 15:46

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