On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Gordon W. Ross wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:47:17 -0400
> > From: Mike Dugas <mad@Poseidon.Token.Net>
> > 
> > Hello-
> > 
> > I have a Sun 3/60 I am trying to get running (it should have been running
> > yesterday, really), but I have a problem.  I'm making the tapes on my Linux
> > box, and they boot fine, so I know it's reading them properly, but when
> > I try to boot the boot tape, I get this:
> > 
> > Auto-boot in progress...
> > 
> > EEPROM boot device...st(0,0,0)
> > >> NetBSD tapeboot [$Revision 1.3 $]
> > 466260+284056+87436+[41688+45445]exec: short read
> > tapeboot: 1: Input/output error
> > tapeboot: segment? [1]
> >
> > And my cursor sits on the last line waiting for my input.
> >  What should I do?
> 
> Just press enter.
> 

I've tried everything.  I've pressed enter, I've typed 2, I've typed 3,
I can't get it to work at all.  I even went to the extent of pulling
memory, and making the tape and having mt write the eof at the end of each
tape segment.  I can't get it to work AT ALL.

Help! :)

/mad