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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!<UNAUTHENTICATED>+ Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Message-ID: <Mf35Eau00YdeM0tEtK@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:57:42 -0500 From: David Eugene Dwiggins <dd2x@ANDREW.CMU.EDU> Subject: boot block installation, bad sectors Lines: 15 OK, I know how to set up 386bsd using the install program. (yeech.) I want to use a custom set of partitions. I have already created the disklabel, and written it to the disk. Problem 1: How do I get the boot block on the disk so the system boots from the hard drive? Under Mach, I just use dd. Problem 2: I'm using ESDI drives, and 386bsd doesn't seem to notice bad blocks.I do. It's not fun to watch your file system die. I have the bad sector locations on paper. Thanks, David