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From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Superblock Backup Kills NetBSD Install
Date: 27 Apr 1993 17:53:23 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services
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NetBSD 0.8 install fails after "Initializing root filesystem and mounting..."

It fires up the superblock backup, gets a write error (bad sector on the
disk, I assume, since it's ESDI (no translation) and has 31 known errors
on it).  Any way to circumvent this?

Email preferred.