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From: warelock@crash.cts.com (Tom Zacharoff)
Subject: Re: bad144 problem?
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 16 Aug 93 18:07:51 PDT
Message-ID: <1993Aug16.180751.16931@crash>
References: <9322908.27770@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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Jan Jaeger (janj@acci.com.au) wrote:
: 
: You will need to have the badsect flag in you disklabel set before
: wd.c will even look at the bad sector table.  Depending on what
: configuration you run (a 386BSD partition or full disk) you
: will also have to ensure that the table ends up in the right spot
: else you won't be able to ipl your system.  Also, I have had a few
: problems with running disklabel on a 0.2.4 system where there was
: no label yet.  

How do I set the badsect flag in my disklabel? Is it a function of the 
disklabel program?

I have a full disk configuration. Where does the table have to be? How do I
get it there? What does it mean that I won't be able to ipl my system?