myself> For the Louis case, can you set use-nvramrc false ?
Louis> Yes! That worked. But it isn't reliable. If I reboot, 

Louis, would you do reset-all every time after you issue 
 setenv ....
command ?

For example:
setenv nvram false
reset-all
...
boot

setenv nvram true
reset-all
...
boot

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Makoto Fujiwara, 
Chiba, Japan, Narita Airport and Disneyland prefecture.