installboot(1M)       Maintenance Commands        installboot(1M)



NAME
     installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition

SPARC SYNOPSIS
     installboot bootblk raw-disk-device

x86 SYNOPSIS
     installboot pboot bootblk raw-disk-device

PowerPC SYNOPSIS
     installboot bootblk [ -f openfirmware ] 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).

     For PowerPC only, the bootblk is copied into the primary DOS
     partition that must exist on the raw-disk-device which is
     determined by reading the fdisk partition table (sector 0 of
     the "p0" partition of raw-disk-device).  The primary DOS
     partition is mounted as a PCFS filesystem,  and bootblk is
     copied into the partition as the file SOLARIS.ELF.  If the
     "-f openfirmware" argument is given, the openfirmware file is
     copied into the PowerPC boot partition (type 0x41).  This is
     needed only for systems that do not have real Open Firmware.
     If this argument is provided and the PowerPC boot partition
     does not exist or if the primary DOS partition does not exist,
     installboot fails.

SPARC EXAMPLES
     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 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

PowerPC EXAMPLES
     To install the ufs bootblock and openfirmware programs 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/bootblk \
          -f /platform/`uname -i`/openfirmware.x41 /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
     PowerPC: Installing Solaris Software

  SPARC only
     monitor(1M)



SunOS 5.4           Last change: 19 Dec 1994                    1






installboot(1M)       Maintenance Commands        installboot(1M)



  x86 and PowerPC only
     fmthard(1M), fdisk(1M)

WARNINGS
     installboot will fail if the bootblk, pboot or openfirmware
     files  don't exist or if the raw disk device isn't a character device.


SunOS 5.4           Last change: 19 Dec 1994                    2