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System Administration Commands                    installboot(1M)



NAME
     installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition

SYNOPSIS
     installboot [-F zfs|ufs|hsfs] 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. This program  is  filesystem-specific,  and  must
     match the type of filesystem on the disk to be booted.


     The boot objects are platform-dependent and  reside  in  the
     /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/file-system    directory.
     The platform name can  be  found  using  the  -i  option  of
     uname(1). The filesystem type can be found using:

       % fstyp raw-disk-device




     See fstyp(1M).


     The installboot utility is a SPARC only program. It  is  not
     supported  on  the  x86  architecture.  x86 users should use
     installgrub(1M) instead.

OPTIONS
     The following option is supported:

     -F zfs|ufs|hsfs

         Specifies the file system type of the boot block  to  be
         installed.  Required if you wish to specify zfs or hsfs.
         The default is ufs.


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



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System Administration Commands                    installboot(1M)



         SCSI  or  IPI  drive  are c?t?d?s? and c?d?s? for an IDE
         drive.


EXAMPLES
     Example 1 Installing UFS Boot Block


     To install a ufs boot block on slice 0 of target 0  on  con-
     troller  1  of  the platform where the command is being run,
     use:


       # installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk \
            /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0



     Example 2 Installing ZFS Boot Block


     To install a ZFS boot block on slice 0 of target 0  on  con-
     troller  1  of  the platform where the command is being run,
     use syntax such as the following:


       # installboot -F zfs /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/zfs/bootblk \
             /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0



FILES
     /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/

         Directory where boot objects reside.


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | SUNWcs                      |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO




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System Administration Commands                    installboot(1M)



     kmdb(1), od(1),  uname(1),  boot(1M),  fstyp(1M),  init(1M),
     kernel(1M),   monitor(1M),  reboot(1M),  rpc.bootparamd(1M),
     init.d(4), attributes(5)


WARNINGS
     The installboot utility fails if the bootblk or openfirmware
     files  do not exist or if the raw disk device is not a char-
     acter device.














































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