At 03:52 PM 2000-01-21 -0500, Jeff Kell wrote:
>Just be *certain* that your last boot was a 'start norecovery' and your
>next boot will be a 'start norecovery'.  Using the defaults of IOCONFIG
>will try to save your changes to the BOOTUP group, and that will fail
>if your last boot was a simple 'start'.  You can workaround this by
>using SYSGEN/DOIONOW and setting your basegroup to CONFIG before you
>save changes.
>
>If you typically use 'start norecovery' you should have no problems.
>

Which raises the question that I raised a while back - which I have not yet
tried and do not have the answer yet:

What if I had used IOCONFIG or SYSGEN/DOIONOW to add one or disc drives,
then VOLUTIL to add same to MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET?

Several weeks later, I shut down the system and perform a START RECOVERY
because I need to preserve some waiting and/or scheduled jobs.

Presumeably, I would encounter severe difficulties which could  be overcome
by shutting the system down and performing a START NORECOVERY - thus losing
my jobs.

If all these assumptions are correct, one needs to be very careful if
dynamically adding disk drives.
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