dokas@cs.umn.edu said:
> 1400000+1670000+[10000+15000]+6500000000read strings 

I've seen this last week - there was a short time window
where the bootloader's decompression code was broken,
leading to "random data" read after the first 1kB.
Make sure you don't have
sys/lib/libsa/cread.c rev. 1.7.

best regards
Matthias