installboot(1M)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPERANDS | EXAMPLES | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | WARNINGS

NAME

installboot- install bootblocks in a disk partition

SYNOPSIS

SPARC

installboot bootblk raw-disk-device


IA

installboot pboot bootblk raw-disk-device

DESCRIPTION

The boot(1M) program, ufsboot, is loaded from disk by the bootblock program which resides in the boot area of a disk partition.

The ufs boot objects are platform-dependent, and reside in the /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs directory. The platform name can be found using the -i option of uname(1).

OPERANDS

bootblk

The name of the bootblock code.

raw-disk-device

The name of the disk device onto which the bootblock code is to be installed; it must be a character device which is readable and writable. Naming conventions for a SCSI or IPI drive are c?t?d?s? and c?d?s? for an IDE drive.

pboot

The name of the partition boot file.

EXAMPLES

SPARC

To install a ufs bootblock on slice 0 of target 0 on controller 1 of the platform where the command is being run, use:

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example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk \ /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0

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IA

To install the ufs bootblock and partition boot program on slice 2 of target 0 on controller 1 of the platform where the command is being run, use:

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example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/pboot \ /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2

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FILES

/usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs

directory where ufs boot objects reside.

/platform/platform-name/ufsboot

second level program to boot from a disk or CD

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWcsu

SEE ALSO

od(1), uname(1), boot(1M), init(1M), kadb(1M), kernel(1M), reboot(1M), rpc.bootparamd(1M), init.d(4), attributes(5)

Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide

SPARC

monitor(1M)

IA

fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M)

WARNINGS

The installboot utility will fail if the bootblk, pboot or openfirmware files do not exist or if the raw disk device is not a character device.

SunOS 5.8  Last Revised 3 Apr 1997

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPERANDS | EXAMPLES | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | WARNINGS