09-04-2014
So 'format' doesn't find the original disk that boots okay?
Perhaps that is not an error in this virtualised environment. I repeat, I do not know your 'simulator' environment.
However, in your post#1, you say that the newly created (virtual) disk is device c0t0d0s3. If it doesn't show in 'format', how did you know that?
It is likely that this platform has its own boot block(s) for booting so I would be careful writing boot blocks out. (Boot blocks reside in sectors 0 and 1 of the physical drive and, after execution, pass control to the partition it's booting from.
Also, if you are changing from booting from c0t0d0s0 to booting from c0t0d0s3 then the device nodes /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 and /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3 must exist on that filesystem before it can be booted from. ALSO, if /usr is a separate filesystem, the /etc/vfstab must tell Solaris where to find that. The nodes for that device must exist too. So (if /usr is not included on the root filesystem) it must be an available device for Solaris to boot. Other filesystems may fail to mount but the system will still boot.
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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.
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