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Manual page for installboot(1M)

installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition

SPARC SYNOPSIS

installboot bootblk raw-disk-device

x86 SYNOPSIS

installboot pboot bootblk raw-disk-device

AVAILABILITY

SUNWcsu

DESCRIPTION

The boot.1m program is loaded from disk by the bootblock program which resides in the boot area of a disk partition.

bootblk is the name of the bootblock code. raw-disk-device is 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 is the name of the partition boot file.

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

SPARC EXAMPLES

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

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

x86 EXAMPLES

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:

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

SEE ALSO

od.1 uname.1 boot.1m init.1m kadb.1m kernel.1m reboot.1m rpc.bootparamd.1m init.d.4


SPARC only

monitor.1m

x86 only

fmthard.1m fdisk.1m

WARNINGS

installboot will fail if the bootblk or pboot files don't exist or if the raw disk device isn't a character device.


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Last modified 21/April/97