projects / unix-history / blame
| Commit | Line | Data |
|---|---|---|
| b42074ab CL |
1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1991 Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| c1388461 | 3 | .\" |
| b42074ab | 4 | .\" %sccs.include.redist.man% |
| c1388461 | 5 | .\" |
| b42074ab CL |
6 | .\" @(#)installboot.8 7.2 (Berkeley) %G% |
| 7 | .\" | |
| 8 | .Dd | |
| 9 | .Dt INSTALLBOOT 8 | |
| 10 | .Os BSD 4.3t | |
| 11 | .Sh NAME | |
| 12 | .Nm installboot | |
| 13 | .Nd installs a boot program in a file system | |
| 14 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
| 15 | .Nm installboot | |
| 16 | .Ar bootblock bootprog special | |
| 17 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
| 18 | .Xr Installboot | |
| c1388461 | 19 | concatentates |
| b42074ab | 20 | .Ar bootblock |
| c1388461 | 21 | and |
| b42074ab CL |
22 | .Ar bootprog |
| 23 | and writes at most | |
| 24 | .Dv BBSIZE | |
| 25 | bytes (from | |
| 26 | .Aq Pa sys/fs.h ) | |
| c1388461 | 27 | of them on the first bytes of |
| b42074ab CL |
28 | .Ar special . |
| 29 | .Sh FILES | |
| 30 | .Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/bootxxx -compact | |
| 31 | .It Pa /usr/mdec/??boot | |
| 32 | boot blocks | |
| 33 | .It Pa /usr/mdec/boot?? | |
| 34 | boot programs | |
| 35 | .El | |
| 36 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
| 37 | .Xr newfs 8 , | |
| 38 | .Xr dd 1 | |
| 39 | .Sh EXAMPLES | |
| 40 | .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact | |
| c1388461 | 41 | cd /usr/mdec |
| c1388461 | 42 | installboot raboot bootra /dev/ra0a |
| b42074ab CL |
43 | .Ed |
| 44 | .Sh BUGS | |
| c1388461 KM |
45 | There is no convenient way to determine the names of the boot blocks |
| 46 | and boot programs without | |
| b42074ab | 47 | .Em a priori |
| c1388461 | 48 | knowledge of one's make of disk. |
| b42074ab CL |
49 | .Sh HISTORY |
| 50 | The | |
| 51 | .Nm | |
| 52 | command appeared in | |
| 53 | .Bx 4.3 tahoe . | |
| 54 | This manual page was written by Geoff Collyer. |