Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!wross From: wross@caen.engin.umich.edu (Wendy Ross) Subject: Re: Multiple boot disks in AIX 3.1? Message-ID: <1991Mar20.022301.7674@engin.umich.edu> Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor References: Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 02:23:01 GMT In article Steve_Lammert@TRANSARC.COM writes: >We would like to keep multiple variant versions of AIX 3.1 around, >and be able to boot these variant versions on demand. For instance, we'd >like to have one disk with 3002, one disk with 3003, etc. so that we can >run various programs under several different releases. > < bunch of possible solutions deleted > > >Thanks! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Steve Lammert | Gulf Tower | Internet: shl@transarc.com > Facilities Coordinator | 707 Grant Street | Voice: +1 412 338-4443 > Transarc Corporation | Pittsburgh PA 15219 | FAX: +1 412 338-4404 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you looked at the bootlist command? bootlist takes as arguments the key position and order of boot devices. You could reset the bootlist for the normal key position to have different hard drives listed first. I have not actually tried this for changing hard drives, but instead used this when I go to boot a machine off floppies and realize once I'm halfway across campus I forgot the *l!*%()& key again. (Not that I have anything against sorting through the 35 odd sets of keys I have accrued you understand!) It is documented well in info, so I would recommend looking at the various options there. P.S. So does AFS really run that differently under different releases??? Yikes - is there anything you want to tell me about? Good luck. Wendy Ross Computer Aided Engineering Network College of Engineering University of Michigan, Ann Arbor