Thanks for help!

One more question before the next trial.
What does this command do? Does it check a disk for bad sectors?


2007/2/27, Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>:
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:29:16PM +0300, Alexander Bubnov wrote:
> > I just tried to use the whole disk installing NetBSD.
> >
> > As you know NetBSD installer offers:
> >
> > Which would you like to do?
> >
> > a: Edit the MBR partition table
> > b: Use the entire disk
> >
> > I choose point b. Although, I tried use point a and installed NetBSD as
> the
> > first partition and result the same.
> > Result:
> >
> > Boot failed (errno 2): Can't open /boot.
>
> Maybe try zapping the disk with
>
>   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d count=100
>
> and try again with option b ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick