[rescue] OpenBSD on an SS5 - argh!

Eric Webb ttlchaos at randomc.com
Fri May 14 12:19:55 CDT 2004


On Friday 14 May 2004 01:00 pm, Micah R L wrote:
> I've recently acquired four SPARCstation 5 machines for cheap cheap, and
> I'm looking to put OpenBSD on one of them to play with. It took me a
> long time to get it to boot from the install media. I had to "dd
> if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=10 >> cd35.iso" and reburn the boot cd to
> escape the error "bootxx: short read, Program terminated"

Hmm, where did you get this info?  I have been having the same problem with 
the bootable install CD I burned and gave up and was getting ready to set up 
a netboot.  


Eric



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