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

[Tom Adams]

On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 2:52:29 PM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.

Yep that is what I found when I investigated after Moroney's post above.