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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-02-13 kl. 12:41, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> In article <n9n3dc$gk2$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>
>>>> Do you also need to put both members in BOOT_DEV?
>>>
>>> As long as both are there, no.  It will boot from the one in BOOTDEF_DEV
>>> and the other member will be added during boot.  If the primary member
>>> fails, then it won't boot from the other one...
>>
>> What is "the primary member" ??
>
> The one (if there is only one) in BOOTDEF_DEV, otherwise the first one.
>
>> Note that BOOTDEF_DEV can have multiple entries.
>> Why shouldn't it try to boot from the next entry
>> in BOOTDEF_DEV?
>
> It does.  That's why I suggested to have both members in BOOTDEF_DEV.
> If both members are not in BOOTDEF_DEV, and the one that is fails, then
> it will not try the other one automatically.
>

OK. I thought *that* was obvious... :-)
I thought you was refering "primary" to the shadow set as such.