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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting to root image on floppy Date: 30 Dec 1995 00:12:52 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4c2064$b4r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <30E34C3D.5BDA@censoft.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 "Chad B. Attermann" <chada@censoft.com> writes: > 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? Pick a FreeBSD 2.1R boot.flp and fixit.flp combo, boot the boot floppy, select `fixit', and insert the fixit floppy. This should leave you with enough stuff to repair your hard disk. (It does also work to repair a 2.0.5R system, most likely even a 2.0 one.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)