SUMMARY: Cloning a Solaris 8 x86 disk

From: Suresh Rajagopalan (sraja@cinenet.net)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 10:22:32 CDT

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Thanks to Dan Mick for this one:

1. Initialize the x86 boot partition using
mkfs -F pcfs -o S,s,B=/boot/mdbootbp,b=BOOT,i=/boot/strap.com \
/dev/rdsk/c?t?d?p0:boot

The above step installs the boot loader.

2. Copy the files from /boot to this partition.

-Suresh

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Original question:

Hi,

I tried the following in attempting to clone a Solaris 8 x86 Disk:

1. Used fdisk to create 1 DOS and 1 Solaris partition
2. Copied all the Solaris stuff over using ufsdump/ufsrestore
3. Created a DOS partition on /dev/rdsk/c0d0p0:boot and copied files
from /boot over to it.
4. Ran "installboot pboot bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0d0s2"

Tried to reboot, but the machine won't boot. It seems to be related to
how the /boot partition is created, but I'm not sure how that works.

Any suggestions appreciated.

-Thanks
Suresh

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