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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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installboot — Install Bootblocks in a Disk Partition

Synopsis

SPARC Platform
/usr/sbin/installboot bootblk
							raw-disk-device
						
IA Platform
installboot pboot
							bootblk
							raw-disk-device
						

Description

The boot(1M) program, ufsboot, is loaded from disk by the bootblock program that 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. You can find the platform name by 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; the device must be a character device that is readable and writeable. Naming conventions for a SCSI or IPI drive ...
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