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NAME

/usr/mdec/sgivol — configure SGI Volume Header

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The /usr/mdec/sgivol program prepares an SGI Volume Header to be used to boot NetBSD. The SGI PROM is able to load executables within the header, which in turn are used to load the kernel from another file system.

OPTIONS

The following options are available:

-f

Force the operation. Do not ask the user before proceeding.

-h

Set the size of the newly initialized volume header in blocks. One block is 512 bytes. The default volume header size is 3135 blocks (1.53MB).

-q

Suppress output.

PARTITION TYPES

The numerical partition types for the volume header include:

	 0:	Volume Header
	 1:	Replicated Tracks
	 2:	Replicated Sectors
	 3:	Raw
	 4:	BSD4.2 file system
	 5:	SysV file system
	 6:	Entire Volume (all disk blocks)
	 7:	EFS
	 8:	Logical Volume
	 9:	Raw Logical Volume
	10:	XFS
	11:	XFS Log
	12:	XLV Volume
	13:	XVM Volume

EXAMPLES

To display the existing volume header and partition table on disk “sd0”:

To initialize a new volume header 42 512-byte blocks large on disk “sd0”:

To copy a file boot from the volume header to local file /tmp/boot on disk “sd0”:

To copy a local file /usr/mdec/ip2xboot to the volume header as boot on disk “sd0”:

To delete the existing file boot from the volume header on disk “sd0”:

To move (rename) an existing file file1 to file2 in the volume header on disk “sd0”:

To change partition 0 to type 4 (BSD4.2) beginning at block offset 3200 and continue for 28000 blocks on disk “sd0”:

SEE ALSO

sgimips/boot(8)