NAME
newdisk —
Prepare a new disk to be
usable for X680x0
SYNOPSIS
newdisk |
[-vnfcp]
[-m mboot]
raw_device |
DESCRIPTION
newdisk prepares a new hard disk to be bootable from by
X680x0. It should NOT be used for floppy disks.
It creates a disk mark for IOCS to determine the disk geometry, writes the
primary boot program (mboot), and creates empty partition table. The option
are as follows:
-
-
- -v
- Verbose mode.
-
-
- -n
- Dryrun mode. Nothing is written to the disk.
-
-
- -f
- Force. Usually, when newdisk detects
existing disk mark, it aborts with some error messages.
-f option prevents this behaviour.
-
-
- -c
- Check only. newdisk looks at the disk
whether it is already marked.
-
-
- -p
- Do not create the partition table.
-
-
- -m
mboot
- Specifies the mboot program to be written.
FILES
- /usr/mdec/mboot
- The default primary boot program.
SEE ALSO
installboot(8),
x68k/boot(8)
HISTORY
The
newdisk utility first appeared in
NetBSD
1.5.
AUTHORS
newdisk was written by
MINOURA Makoto
<
minoura@NetBSD.org>.