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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