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

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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.

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