Vol status will tell you which one is the "root" (default boot) volume. To change it use vol options. You can have as many "stand by" root volumes as you like, but it will only boot from the marked "root" under the options column output from vol status.
--Chuck
-----Original Message----- From: steve@hq.newdream.net [mailto:steve@hq.newdream.net] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 12:52 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: mounting foreign root volume (multiple root volumes) causes panick
Does anyone know if you can mount two (or more) root volumes on one filer and how tell it which on to boot from?
I had a filer/shelf with a corrupt vol0. However there was user data on there I wanted to get at. So I mounted it on another test filer whose root volume was named boot, but the filer now complained about having two root volumes (boot and vol0).
Thu Jan 2 21:09:00 GMT [fmmbx_instanceWorke:info]: Disk 4.1 is a primary mailbox disk Thu Jan 2 21:09:00 GMT [fmmbx_instanceWorke:info]: Disk 4.0 is a primary mailbox disk Thu Jan 2 21:09:00 GMT [fmmbx_instanceWorke:info]: normal mailbox instance on primary side Thu Jan 2 21:09:01 GMT [raid.assim.tree.multipleRootVols:error]: Volumes vol0 and boot both claim to be the root volume. 2 root volumes found: vol0 boot
PANIC: 2 root volumes found, 2 of which are online. in process rc on release NetApp Release 6.3.1 on Thu Jan 2 21:09:02 2003
version: NetApp Release 6.3.1: Wed Nov 20 13:00:54 PST 2002 cc flags: 1
I was trying to boot both as readonly so I could boot off a previous inode on the corrupt vol0. Anyone know if there is a way to specify which volume to boot from when you are mounting multiple root volumes on one filer? I've already gotten the data in another fashion but I thought it should be able to mount two root volumes on one filer.
Steve