I've broken /boot/device.hints

[Andy Holyer]

I was trying to disable ACPI by editing device.hints, and left some 
garbage at the start of the file. Now I find the kernel won't boot - 
you get to the little Daemon flash page, and then kernel load goes on 
and after the first line of boot, the star fails to spin.

I've got a spare copy of the root partition on /dev/ac1s1a but I can't 
seem to boot from there.

This box is very unhappy with ACPI.

If I boot from floppies the emergency shell doesn't seem to include a 
copy of mount, so I can't rectify the fault.

Is there an easy survival route?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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