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- FYI #050190dl
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- This is how to insure that you mirror the cold boot loader. It
- will enable you to boot from the secondary drive if the primary drive
- crashes. This only works for v2.15C and above.
-
- While in NINSTALL (spawned by NETGEN) on a clean "first time"
- installation, the first option will be to "Hotfix Drives To
- Default". Pick this option. Then the first option will be
- replaced by "Initialize a Disk". Instead of initializing each
- disk separately, go to the "Modify Mirror Tables" option and
- establish the desired mirrored pair(s). Then use the "Initialize
- a Disk" option and initialize the mirrored pair(s) as one logical
- disk. (the status column will show "Mirrored").
-
- Once this is completed, and the option is selected to install the
- operating system within "Miscellaneous Maintenance", the cold
- boot loader will be written to both mirrored drives which
- correspond to volume SYS.
-
- If you have a 2.1X system already and you have mirrored the
- primary drive then you must upgrade to 2.15C. When installing
- your upgrade the cold boot loader will be copied to both mirrored
- SYS volume drives. This happens when you choose the option in
- "Miscellaneous Maintenance" to install the operating system.
-
- Also, if the primary drive crashes, the secondary (mirrored drive)
- will not cold boot unless the controller and drive jumpers are
- changed to CONTROLLER 0, DRIVE 0.
-
- David K. Lind - ATS/Support Engineering
- Perry Roberts - Tech Support, Chicago
-