Dynamic Root Disk A.3.12.* Administrator's Guide

Preparing the inactive system image to activate later
If you do not want to make the inactive system image the active system image right away, you can
configure the drd activate command so that it does not reboot the system. Because -x
reboot=false is the default, the command is simply:
# /opt/drd/bin/drd activate
If you are not certain which system image is set to become the active system image when the system
boots, execute the following command:
# /usr/sbin/setboot -v
For additional information, see the setboot(1M) manpage.
In the following example on an HP-UX 11i v2 system, a system administrator uses /stand/
bootconf, setboot, and ioscan to determine that, currently, the primary boot disk (the one
that will be booted on the next reboot) is the same as the currently booted disk. The system
administrator is ready to boot to the clone, but wants to set the alternate boot disk to the current
boot disk. (In the event of any problem booting the clone, the system will then fall back to booting
the alternate, current disk.)
The system administrator issues the drd activate command shown below, then uses setboot
to verify the settings.
NOTE: The following example does not correspond to any of the figures in this guide.
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