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Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 13:32:23 -0500
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From: Joe Nieten <jln@lincom-asg.com>
Subject: HELP lost rsd1 ... can't boot
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Hello,

One of the hard disks in my machine died, However the boot disk (sd0) is
still there. 

I have tried to modify the fstab to ignore the "dead" disk, but the file
system is read-only ...

Any idea how to boot without this dead drive??
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