05-20-2007
Yes grub is a bootloader. Should be able to configure it to get the options you want.
A raw disk has a load of bytes on it. Partitions (or slices) are subdivisions of that space. A filesystem lives normally in a partition(or slice). A disk can have one single partition. A filesystem must be of some format and use a driver/handler.
In order to use a disk it has to be brought online, this is called "mounting" and basically identifies the type of filesystem, where the bytes for it are, what driver to use and where it should appear in the global file system (the mountpoint). When you want to take a disk offline it must be dismounted, hence "umount". A volume should be dismounted cleanly to make sure all buffers are flushed and files are closed. (see "sync").
"/etc/vfstab" is a file on Solaris which lists your volumes so the system can automatically mount them.
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cmdk(7D) Devices cmdk(7D)
NAME
cmdk - common disk driver
SYNOPSIS
cmdk@target, lun : [ partition | slice ]
DESCRIPTION
The cmdk device driver is a common interface to various disk devices. The driver supports magnetic fixed disks and magnetic removable
disks.
The block-files access the disk using the system's normal buffering mechanism and are read and written without regard to physical disk
records. There is also a "raw" interface that provides for direct transmission between the disk and the user's read or write buffer. A sin-
gle read or write call usually results in one I/O operation; raw I/O is therefore considerably more efficient when many bytes are transmit-
ted. The names of the block files are found in /dev/dsk; the names of the raw files are found in /dev/rdsk.
I/O requests to the magnetic disk must have an offset and transfer length that is a multiple of 512 bytes or the driver returns an EINVAL
error.
Slice 0 is normally used for the root file system on a disk, slice 1 as a paging area (for example, swap), and slice 2 for backing up the
entire fdisk partition for Solaris software. Other slices may be used for usr file systems or system reserved area.
Fdisk partition 0 is to access the entire disk and is generally used by the fdisk(1M) program.
FILES
/dev/dsk/cndn[s|p]n block device (IDE)
/dev/rdsk/cndn[s|p]n raw device (IDE)
where:
cn controller n
dn lun n (0-7)
sn UNIX system slice n (0-15)
pn fdisk partition(0)
/kernel/drv/cmdk 32-bit kernel module.
/kernel/drv/amd64/cmdk 64-bit kernel module.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |x86 |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
fdisk(1M), mount(1M), lseek(2), read(2), write(2), readdir(3C), scsi(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), dkio(7I)
SunOS 5.10 9 Oct 2004 cmdk(7D)