On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Adrian Rollett wrote:

# Hello everyone,
# 
# 	I just got an SSLX (64 megs ram, 1gig quantum fireball HD). So, I
# just went to try and install it - stuck in the syboot-141.fs disk
# (appropriately dd'ed, etc. etc.) and it found the kernel, loaded it up,
# and just when it appeared to be about to do something useful, the kernel
# panic'd. (the boot-141.fs disk simply failed - an error about bootxx:
# short read  - or some such) So, the question is, am I out of luck? Should
# I try the 1.4 syboot?

Short read on bootxx means that the kernel (or bootstrapper) did not
make it on to the disk successfully.

Try dd-ing the disk again.  'dd if=... bs=18k of=/dev/rfd0a', I think.


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