installboot(1M)

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 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

  x86
     To use installboot to install the ufs bootblock  and  parti-
     tion  boot  program  on  a  disk  in an IA machine, you must
     specify slice 2 and that slice must be the entire disk.  For
     example,  to  install  the  UFS  bootblock on target 0, con-
     troller 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  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 9 9/04 Installation Guide

  SPARC
     monitor(1M)

  x86
     fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M)

WARNINGS

     The installboot utility fails if the bootblk, pboot or open-
     firmware   files  do  not exist or if the raw disk device is
     not a character device.