NAME

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: Installing Solaris Software
x86: Installing Solaris Software

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. 

SunOS 5.5  —  Last change: 19 Dec 1994