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:

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

x86

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

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:

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 Advanced Installation Guide

SPARC

monitor(1M)

x86

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 5.6  —  Last change: 3 Apr 1997