Got the answer now. Thanks. see page 324 of the TS7740 Redbook.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247312.html?Open Standalone Mount This allows defined users with the correct authority to instruct a VTS to manually mount a virtual volume on a virtual drive. This function enables you to mount a logical volume on a selected virtual drive. If you have an operating system image written to a logical volume, performing a standalone mount of a logical volume to a virtual drive can allow you to boot from that mounted logical volume. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

