marking bad blocks in ISC SVR3.2...URGENT HELP NEEDED

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1 total messages Started by Marc G Fournier Sun, 11 Oct 1992 23:39

Author: Marc G Fournier
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 23:39

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Hi Folks...

	Just installed two ESDI hard drives onto my system,
they are used and there are prone to bad blocks...I expected
it, so that isn't the worry.

	The problem is marking these bad blocks so that the OS
doesn't try and repeatedly use them.  

	Looking through the manuals (after looking at the
sysadmin script), I *thought* that I could use mkpart -A <sector>
to mark it, but I get an error back on that...

	Warning: No root partition, no boot written

	The syntax I am using is 'mkpart -A <sector> disk1'

	Is there something that I am missing with this?  I take
it that the 'no boot written' refers to /etc/boot?  Should my
syntax be something like 'mkpart -A <sector> -B/etc/boot disk1'

	This is on a second harddrive, so why would it be looking
for a root partition?

Any help is greatly appreciated...

Marc

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