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2056 update boot(1m) for right location of the GRUB menu
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
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-.TH BOOT 1M "Jan 14, 2015"
+.TH BOOT 1M "Jun 7, 2015"
.SH NAME
boot \- start the system kernel or a standalone program
.SH SYNOPSIS
.SS "SPARC"
.LP
@@ -1262,19 +1262,10 @@
consists of trying to read the first physical sector from the first diskette
drive, or, if that fails, from the first hard disk. The processor then jumps to
the first byte of the sector image in memory.
.SH X86 PRIMARY BOOT
.LP
-The first sector on a floppy disk contains the master boot block (GRUB
-\fBstage1\fR). The stage 1 is responsible for loading GRUB \fBstage2\fR. Now
-GRUB is fully functional. It reads and executes the menu file
-\fB/boot/grub/menu.lst\fR. A similar sequence occurs for DVD or CD boot, but
-the master boot block location and contents are dictated by the El Torito
-specification. The El Torito boot also leads to \fBstrap.com\fR, which in turn
-loads \fBboot.bin\fR.
-.sp
-.LP
The first sector on a hard disk contains the master boot block, which contains
the master boot program and the \fBFDISK\fR table, named for the \fBPC\fR
program that maintains it. The master boot finds the active partition in the
\fBFDISK\fR table, loads its first sector (GRUB \fBstage1\fR), and jumps to its
first byte in memory. This completes the standard PC-compatible hard disk boot
@@ -1281,10 +1272,19 @@
sequence. If GRUB \fBstage1\fR is installed on the master boot block (see the
\fB-m\fR option of \fBinstallgrub\fR(1M)), then \fBstage2\fR is loaded directly
from the Solaris partition regardless of the active partition.
.sp
.LP
+A similar sequence occurs for DVD or CD boot, but the master boot block location
+and contents are dictated by the El Torito specification. The El Torito boot
+will then continue in the same way as with the hard disk.
+.sp
+.LP
+Floppy booting is not longer supported. Booting from USB devices follows the
+same procedure as with hard disks.
+.sp
+.LP
An x86 \fBFDISK\fR partition for the Solaris software begins with a
one-cylinder boot slice, which contains GRUB \fBstage1\fR in the first sector,
the standard Solaris disk label and volume table of contents (VTOC) in the
second and third sectors, and GRUB \fBstage2\fR in the fiftieth and subsequent
sectors. The area from sector 4 to 49 might contain boot blocks for older
@@ -1477,20 +1477,10 @@
\fBbootadm set-menu\fR.
.SH FILES
.ne 2
.na
-\fB\fB/platform/\fR\fIplatform-name\fR\fB/ufsboot\fR\fR
-.ad
-.sp .6
-.RS 4n
-Second-level program to boot from a disk, DVD, or CD
-.RE
-
-.sp
-.ne 2
-.na
\fB\fB/etc/inittab\fR\fR
.ad
.sp .6
.RS 4n
Table in which the \fBinitdefault\fR state is specified
@@ -1527,15 +1517,20 @@
.RE
.sp
.ne 2
.na
-\fB\fB/boot/grub/menu.lst\fR\fR
+\fB\fB/rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst\fR\fR
.ad
.sp .6
.RS 4n
Menu of bootable operating systems displayed by GRUB.
+.sp
+\fBNote:\fR this file is located on the root ZFS pool. While many installs
+often name their root zpool 'rpool', this is not required and the
+/rpool in the path above should be substituted with the name of
+the root pool of your current system.
.RE
.sp
.ne 2
.na