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Subject: have bad fstab causing boot error
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fstab is bad and boot drops me into "manual root filesystems spec"

I answer ufs:ad0s1a  
and get these messages
 "warning / was not properly dismounted" 
"warning R/W of / denied. filesystem is not clean  run fcsk"

when I enter fsck command nothing happens.
What is procedure to follow here???