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[John D. Irwin]

Well, I hate to ask a question like this, but here goes.

We just brought up 4.2 the beginning of the month, and have thus installed al-
most none of the bug fixes given over the net.  (We have two system programmers
for our machine)  Anyway, three times already the following has happened:

We bring the machine down to single user for some reason, and then decide to
reboot.  So we type 'halt', then hit ^P-H-B.  At that point the boot program
goes insane -- it finds many many errors on the root disk.  If we boot off
another disk and try to 'dd' the first off, 'dd' finds many errors.

This is sort of, well, distressing, to say the least.  How can Unix create
errors?  Anyway, does anyone have any ideas/fixes?

PS:  Does anyone have a list of the 'most important' bug fixes for 4.2?  I
     have several hundred fixes here and I don't have time to do them all.
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