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From: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
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Subject: boot problem
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As the machine is booting, I get the following message as the disks are 
being checked:

  cannot alloc 5898242 bytes for lncntp

This convinces FreeBSD that something went wrong, and that a fsck needs 
to be performed in a subshell.

Help!

Joe