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NAME

installboot — install bootstrap on a disk

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

installboot installs bootstrap on the specified disk. The exact process used depends on the system architecture, however there is generally a primary bootstrap (often known as a boot block) and a secondary bootstrap (often known as a boot loader). Some architectures only require a single stage bootstrap, which is written to the beginning of the disk.

The options are as follows:

-n

Perform a dry run - do not actually write to the disk.

-p

Prepare filesystem. This will create a new filesystem on the partition reserved for the boot loader on architectures that require one.

-r root

Specify the mount point of the root filesystem to operate on, defaulting to /.

-v

Increase verbosity during operation.

disk

Specify the disk to install the bootstrap on. This may be specified using a full pathname, an abbreviated disk form, or a disklabel UID.

stage1

Specify the file to use for the primary bootstrap. If not specified, the default for this architecture will be used.

stage2

Specify the file to use for the secondary bootstrap. If not specified, the default for this architecture will be used.

EXAMPLES

In its most basic form, to install bootstrap on disk sd0, using the default primary and secondary bootstrap files:

# installboot sd0

To install bootstrap on an OpenBSD amd64 machine, using /usr/mdec/biosboot as the primary bootstrap and /usr/mdec/boot as the secondary bootstrap:

# installboot -v wd0 /usr/mdec/biosboot /usr/mdec/boot

SEE ALSO

disklabel(8)