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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Urgent!
To: xiyuan@npc.haplink.co.cn (xiyuan qian)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 11:27:55 -0700 (MST)
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> Hi, one of my important host runnig under FreeBSD2.1.0-release suddenly showed "syncing disk 4 3 3 2 2 1" and reboot after 15 seconds, but it can NOT reboot just halt at:
> Boot:
> -
> 
> How can I fix it, with fixit.flp disk???. How can I get some important files from the disk that I have no backup??? 

Read the handbook section of fsck'ing the root dir from a fixit floppy.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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