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From: "Chad B. Attermann" <chada@censoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Booting to root image on floppy
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 19:02:37 -0700
Organization: Century Software, Inc.
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I have FreeBSD on a 540 MB HD that I think may have died.  It hangs on 
'WARNING: / was not dismounted properly'.  I would like to boot from a 
floppy and be able to run fsck to attempt to salvage some files.  Any 
advice?

Chad Attermann
Century Software
EMail: chada@censoft.com