From: "Staffan Österling" <s dot osterling at telia dot com>

> Problem: Message "Read error"  at booting after installation of
> generic-pc-1.22.img
> HW: PC 100MHz, 80Mb IDEHD (hda), No CD
> Process: Using TomsRTBT to boot in Linux  etc according to instruction.
> Downloading, dd etc runs without errors.

> Rebooting gives "Read error"

Most common reason for this is writing the image to a partition, not a disk. 
Make sure you are writing to the entire device, not just a slice of the 
device.

                                Lee