installboot(1M) System Administration Commands installboot(1M)NAMEinstallboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition
SYNOPSISinstallboot [-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 pro‐
gram 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/plat‐
form/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 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 controller 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 controller 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/c0t1d0s0
FILES
/usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/
Directory where boot objects reside.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWcsu │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOod(1), uname(1), boot(1M), fstyp(1M), init(1M), kadb(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 character device.
SunOS 5.10 31 Jul 2008 installboot(1M)