On Mon, 30 Sep 1996 naamato@merit.edu wrote:

> > > > 
> > > > 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'.

I wrote the EOF, that didn't work, and Linux's dd doesn't support osync
(the stock one, at least)

/mad