| Author |
Alternate boot device? |
pfau2
Member
Posts: 9
Joined: 04.02.12 |
| Posted on December 31 2019 08:55 |
|
|
|
I have a PWS600au running OpenVMS 8.4. The system drive is a two volume shadow set of DKA0 and DKA100. The firmware is set to automatically boot from DKA0. Recently the DKA0 drive failed. The system continued to run from DKA100. When I attempted to reboot the system it failed because DKA0 was dead. Is it possible to set something at the console level that would establish an alternate boot device if booting from the primary fails? |
|
|
| Author |
RE: Alternate boot device? |
Bruce Claremont
Member
Posts: 623
Joined: 07.01.10 |
| Posted on January 01 2020 03:51 |
|
|
|
I believe the short answer is no. At the firmware level you can only designate a single boot device. |
|
|
| Author |
RE: Alternate boot device? |
JonathanBelanger
Member
Posts: 42
Joined: 09.06.16 |
| Posted on January 20 2020 11:07 |
|
|
|
I think you can type b dk100 at the console prompt to boot from the dk100 (assuming it has everything that is needed to boot - which a shadow set may not do). |
|
|
