[SPARCbook] Creating a bootable HDD

[Ken Hansen]

Ahh - I would have assumed that the dd would copy any "magic" as long as it
was inside the partition, not the VTOC/FAT/Whatever they call it on Solaris
disks...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 2:25 AM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Creating a bootable HDD


> On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 12:57:53AM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > Why not 'dd' the partitions? Am I missing something obvious?
> > Ken
>
> You gotta have the bootsector.  "installboot" is mainly used for restoring
> machines from tape - boot single-user off cdrom, partition/newfs the HD
> identical to the old one, "ufsrestore" files onto proper partitions from
> tape, run "installboot" to put the solaris bootsector stuff onto the HD.
>
> Done it many times.
>
> Bill
>
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