AC1.0 pc164 aboot problem

[Dave Mason]

I did the install.  At the time I created / (on /dev/hda1) and /boot 
(on /dev/hda2) as ext3 partitions (leaving about 80MB free at the 
beginning of the disk).  ALl went fine until it came time to boot the 
installed system.

aboot 1.0_pre20040408 comes up but it claims:
    ext2 sb read failed
    aboot: mount of partition 2 failed
    Partition 2 is invalid.  Please try another with 'p'

I booted with the CD, mounted the two partitions.  They look fine.  I 
used /tmp/root/sbin/swriteboot to output /tmp/boot/bootlx to the disk, 
but it made no difference.

Any ideas?

Thanks  ../Dave