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

boot(8), installboot(8)

HISTORY

The newdisk utility first appeared in NetBSD 1.5.

AUTHORS

newdisk was written by MINOURA Makoto <minoura@NetBSD.org>.