> > > 
> > > 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]
> > 


You need to look at INSTALL.txt.  I had this problem making my tapes.  In
that file it describes two things you can do if the tapes do not work
correctly.  The first is to explicitly write an EOF at the end of the tape
segment.  Modify 'MakeBootTape' to do a 'mt /dev/st0 woef' after writing
each segment.  The second is to use 'conv=osync' to fill out the last block
in the tape (this is most likely to fix it).  Of course 'conv=osync' is
incompatible with 'bs'.


Nick Amato
naamato@merit.net