[Info-vax] misprint or feature

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER]

In article <iikd1p$uv9$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
>I came across this today at a console: bootdef_dev set to dk*0.  Is this 
>a misprint, or does it mean it will try to boot from either dka0 or 
>dkdb0?

It is a feature. It will boot from DKA0 or DKB0 or DKC0 if you have ones.
But usually you don't want to see this happen (eg. booting from a user disk)
and therefor explicitely specify the system disk.

But for a multipath (SAN) system disk this could come handy, though you can
explicitely list the devices (>>>SET BOOTDEF_DEV sysdiskpath1,sysdiskpath3)

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Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
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