I have made my boot disk just as the program has instructed, and when I boot from floppy with dual hard drives it locks up and say's kernal error. What am I doing wrong? (1 Reply)
I need to know how to make a boot disk to get Solaris 7 to load on a intel machine.
I have checked out Sun.Com, but did not understand how to download and convert the files to a disk.
any help would be appericated
thanks
Bobby (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have the situaiton in which primary boot disk has bad sectors in Solaris 9. The other hard disk is mirrored using Solstice DiskSuite 4.2. I can reboot system with the other disk. My question is, when I replaced the boot disk with a new one, how can I create meta db and finally make it... (2 Replies)
I'm running solaris 2.5.1. My main development server is DEAD, i can't even boot off the cdrom, it powers up, acts like it is starting the boot process but then says cannot find boot device. I've done the search here on this site and saw the other posts, but at the ok prompt it won't even let me... (3 Replies)
Hi once more :p
Yesterday I reinstalled Solaris OS and now I can not mount pcfs HDD
SunOS unknown 5.10 Generic_142901-03 i86pc i386 i86pc
and what has been added in /etc/vfstab is
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0p1:c - /podaci - pcfs - yes rw
But as I said , my disk is... (4 Replies)
Hello All, I got a question, but I can't find where to set it up. I need your help.
The systems are with solaris 10 and with two boot devices (disk 0 and disk1). When the operator wants to boot the different disk then the previous one, i want to get the user intervention to ask operator if... (3 Replies)
So I have mirrored disk already set up from c1t0d0 to c1t1d0. Is there some special procedures that I need to do before I do and then try to boot from the mirrored disk? I am using a V490 if that helps... (7 Replies)
Update:
The / file system (/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0) is being checked
fsck unable to stat
WARNING - unable to repair the / filesystem. Run fsck manually (fsck -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0).
Root password for system maintenance (control-d to bypass):
I am unable to hit control-d to by pass.
I... (50 Replies)
Hi Solaris 10 Experts,
I am wondering what is the correct syntax to edit in Grub when trying to specify the local ZFS boot disk while booting up from a Solaris 10 x86 64bits DVD installation disk. In other word, I try to boot up from local disk without removing the Solaris installation disk... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I'm looking to copy a boot disk on an old Solaris 8 system using dd. I'll bring the system down to single user mode and begin from there. I'm copying my source disk to a larger target disk. Do I need to do anything other than the 'dd' command below because the target disk is bigger? ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sparcman
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
installboot
installboot(1M)installboot(1M)NAME
installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition
SYNOPSIS
installboot bootblk raw-disk-device
The boot(1M) program, ufsboot, is loaded from disk by the bootblock program which 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. The platform name can be
found using the -i option of uname(1).
The installboot utility is a SPARC only program. It is not supported on the architecture. users should use installgrub(1M) instead.
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 read-
able and writable. Naming conventions for a SCSI or IPI drive are c?t?d?s? and c?d?s? for an IDE drive.
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:
example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk
/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
/usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs
directory where ufs boot objects reside.
/platform/platform-name/ufsboot
second level program to boot from a disk or CD
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
od(1), uname(1), boot(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.
11 Apr 2005 installboot(1M)