SUMMARY: changing boot device remotely

From: Dave Simmonds <dave.simmonds_at_fortel.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:45:17 +0000

Thanks to:
Kai Grunau
Graham Charley
Brian Staab

The answer seems to be consvar
consvar -s bootdef_dev xxx
consvar -a

Dave Simmonds

 -----Original Message-----
From: Dave Simmonds [mailto:dave.simmonds_at_fortel.com]
Sent: 13 December 2000 12:03
To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl. gov (E-mail)
Subject: changing boot device remotely

Hi managers,

I've got a machine with two disks. One has 5.0A and the other has 5.1
I can shutdown the machine and then choose which disk to boot from at the
prompt.

But what I want to do is change the boot disk remotely, i.e., type in some
command to change the boot device and then shutdown -r.

Anyone know of such a command?

Thanks
Dave Simmonds
Received on Wed Dec 13 2000 - 12:41:40 NZDT