installboot

 

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 Maintenance Commands                              installboot(1M)
 
 
 


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 dev-
            ice 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  con-
      troller  1  of  the platform where the command is being run,
      use:
 
 
           example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk \
                /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
 
 
   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:
 
 
           example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/pboot \
                   /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2
 
 
 
 
 SunOS 5.8            Last change: 3 Apr 1997                    1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Maintenance Commands                              installboot(1M)
 
 
 


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  attri-
      butes:
 
      ____________________________________________________________
     |       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 change: 3 Apr 1997                    2
 
 
 

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