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1.13 pefo 18: This is the current OpenBSD 2.1 CD errata list:
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1.14 ! pefo 20: <ul>
1.13 pefo 21: <li><strong>All architectures</strong>
22: <ul>
23: <li>One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
24: when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
25: To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
26: starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
27: kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
28: is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
29: <pre><b>#</b> ed -p % -s install.sub
30: <b>%</b>/{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
31: <b>%</b>wq
32: <b>#</b>
33: </pre>
34: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 35: <br>
36: <ul>
1.6 grr 37: <li><strong>Alpha</strong>
38: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 39: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
1.3 deraadt 40: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
41: harder..
1.6 grr 42: </ul>
1.11 millert 43: <br>
1.7 deraadt 44: <li><strong>i386</strong>
45: <ul>
46: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
47: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
48: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
49: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
50: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
51: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at track 64 or so.
1.8 deraadt 52: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
53: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:
54: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
55: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
56: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
57: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
1.7 deraadt 58: </ul>
1.11 millert 59: <br>
1.6 grr 60: <li><strong>Amiga</strong>
61: <ul>
1.4 niklas 62: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
63: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
64: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
65: user mode and do:
1.5 todd 66: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
1.4 niklas 67: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
68: </pre>
1.6 grr 69: </ul>
70: <li><strong>Sparc</strong>
71: <ul>
1.5 todd 72: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
73: due to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
74: type:
75: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
76: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
77: </pre>
1.6 grr 78: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
79: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
80: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
81: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
82: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
83: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
84: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
85: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
86: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
87: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
88: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
89: </pre>
90: </ul>
1.9 graichen 91: <li><strong>Pmax</strong>
92: <ul>
1.10 millert 93: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
1.9 graichen 94: errors like:
95: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
96: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
97: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
98: </pre>
99: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
100: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
101: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
102: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
103: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
104: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
105: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
106: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
107: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
108: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
109: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
110: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
111: </pre>
112: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
113: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
114: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
115: </ul>
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