Recovery of PGSQL after system crash failing!!!

Guess this what I get for attempting to use a beta version of
pgsql in a production system. :( My database server crashed (kernel
paging fault it looks like) and after reboot, postmaster refuses to start
up. There error it gives is:

DEBUG: starting up
DEBUG: database system was interrupted at 2001-02-11 04:08:12
DEBUG: Checkpoint record at (0, 805076492)
postmaster: reaping dead processes...
Startup failed - abort

And that is it, from running 'postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/'. I get
the same thing each time I run it. I assume that WAL is for some reason
failing to restore/recover the database.
The system is a stock Debian 2.2 system, Dual PPro200, w/pgsql
7.1beta4. The system crash occured during the nightly update of the
databases (from another, internal, non-pgsql, database system). Is there
anyway to recover the database, or do I need to do a 'rm -rf
data; initdb'? A quick response would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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