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


x86

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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x86

To use installboot to install the ufs bootblock and partition boot program on a disk in an IA machine, you must specify slice 2 and that slice must be the entire disk. For example, to install the UFS bootblock on target 0, 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 9 Installation Guide

SPARC

monitor(1M)

x86

fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M)

WARNINGS

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

SunOS 5.9  Last Revised 15 August 2000

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