"Jim McCoy" writes:
You really don't even need to boot floppy (search for the the "floppy-boot?" setting in the boot system) if you are in a hurry. The prev_cp works for 5.x as well but it is a bit of a hack to do this sort of a restore (OTOH I doubt that the "snaprestore" is anything more than a wrapper over prev_cp which masks out the checkpoints stored in the NVRAM log.)
Do you know an easy way to unset floppy-boot? on a running machine, without halting back to `ok '?
If there isn't a way at the moment, I recommend that NetApp implement something a la Solaris' ``eeprom'' command, which allows modifying OpenBoot environment variables, and is really handy when you don't want to take a machine down to change stuff, or you can't get to the console due to unforseen problems (such as when you terminal concentrator locks up that port :( ).
If there isn't a way at the moment, I recommend that NetApp implement something a la Solaris' ``eeprom'' command, which allows modifying OpenBoot environment variables, and is really handy when you don't want to take a machine down to change stuff, or you can't get to the console due to unforseen problems (such as when you terminal concentrator locks up that port :( ).
RFE 14368 has been filed on this.
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Luke Mewburn wrote:
Do you know an easy way to unset floppy-boot? on a running machine, without halting back to `ok '?
If there isn't a way at the moment, I recommend that NetApp implement something a la Solaris' ``eeprom'' command, which allows modifying OpenBoot environment variables, and is really handy when you don't want to take a machine down to change stuff, or you can't get to the console due to unforseen problems (such as when you terminal concentrator locks up that port :( ).
Hmmm, I fail to see the value of the last one. Presumably when you boot the damn thing with the variable set, you'll want to reboot it later. If you boot it with the variable set with the concentrator locked up you won't be able to do anything anyway until you unlock your port concentrator.
The eeprom would still be very usefull, along with the ability to enable breaks from the console and the "go" command.
Tom
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