[Info-vax] BOOTNODE

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On Feb 28, 2:21 am, "Bart.Z... at gmail.com" <bart.z... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 27, 12:53 pm, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
>
> undress to reply) wrote:
> > BOOTNODE is a parameter which AUTOGEN sometimes writes to MODPARAMS.DAT,
> > but SYSMAN> HELP SYS_PARAMETERS doesn't list it.
>
> > What does it do?
>
> > Should one ever change it by hand in MODPARAMS.DAT?
>
> BOOTNODE is not a SYSGEN parameter, so it is reasonable that SYSGEN
> does not provide help for it. It is an extra parameter for AUTOGEN,
> but looking at the code it seems to me that it is obsolete, because
> AUTOGEN does not do anything with it (in V8.4).
>
> CLUSTER_CONFIG_LAN adds this parameter to MODPARAMS.DAT if
> appropriate.
>
> HTH,
>
> Bart

If I recall correctly, this indicated the node fro which to boot a
diskless satellite system.  Yes, there were systems without local disk
drives.

Dan