Bootlist

[Matsul]

How can I change the order of devices my RS6000 H80 attempts to boot from ? thanks

 

[leblanlj]

Matsul;

Here's an example...
bootlist -m normal hdisk0 hdisk1 rmt cd0

The system will attempt to boot from hdisk0 first, hdisk1 next, and so on.

Regards,

L. LeBlanc

 

[leblanlj]

Oops. Not entirely accurate.
The system can boot from the first bootable hdisk it finds.
If you want to ensire that the system boots from hdisk1, you may have to remove hdisk0 from the bootlist to prevent the system from "discovering" hdisk0 first.

I hope that helps.

L. LeBlanc

 

[Yegolev]

Note that perhaps one in twenty times the bootlist command might fail to work. Not sure why, but our scripts that set these things will execute the command twice, just to be safe.

Also note that there is a bootlist maintained in NVRAM which can be set from SMS, in case you have a bare metal system. IBM Certified -- AIX 4.3 Administration
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[Matsul]

thanks for all your replies . Just fro reference is there a way to do this from SMIT ?