Xenix refuses to boot

[Jose Gomez]

After my Xenix/386 2.3.2 suffered a general panic, the system refuses to boot.

It just stops at the Z prompt.  Right after it gives me the list of interrupt
vectors in use.

I would like to copy some data off of the hard disk before reformatting.

I've tried a floppy boot sequence using the N1 disk and interrupting the installation sequence.  I've entered 'fsck /dev/root' to no avail.

How do I copy data off of a non-booting hard disk?

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