[Info-vax] booting on a single disk from a shadowset

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <94e01af7-f13e-4387-bc85-5d6bc76f3f83 at googlegroups.com>, Tom
Adams <tadamsmar at gmail.com> writes: 

> If I take down the system and disconnect dka0 and try to boot on dka100 the=
> n the system seems to hang during the boot (but maybe I did not give it eno=
> ugh time).

Right.  It's looking for the other member.  You don't want it to come up 
1 second too late and get a full copy.

> I am pretty sure that if I disconnected dka100 and left dka0 connected then=
>  it would boot OK, but I can't recall trying it.

Right.  Wait.

> The question is: Is there a quick way to get the system to book as a shadow=
> -set on dka100 when dka0 (the master member) is gone?

Conversational boot, disable shadowing.  Or change the value of
SHADOW_SYS_TMO.  Default is 120 seconds.