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1.13 pefo 18: This is the current OpenBSD 2.1 CD errata list:
19: <br>
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:
1.16 pefo 29: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
30: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
31: wq
1.13 pefo 32: <b>#</b>
33: </pre>
34: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 35: <br>
1.6 grr 36: <li><strong>Alpha</strong>
37: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 38: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
1.3 deraadt 39: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
40: harder..
1.6 grr 41: </ul>
1.11 millert 42: <br>
1.7 deraadt 43: <li><strong>i386</strong>
44: <ul>
45: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
46: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
47: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
48: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
49: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
50: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at track 64 or so.
1.8 deraadt 51: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
52: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:
53: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
54: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
55: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
56: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
1.21 ! deraadt 57: <li>A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
! 58: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
! 59: problems. Read the document, please.
1.7 deraadt 60: </ul>
1.11 millert 61: <br>
1.6 grr 62: <li><strong>Amiga</strong>
63: <ul>
1.4 niklas 64: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
65: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
66: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
67: user mode and do:
1.5 todd 68: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
1.4 niklas 69: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
70: </pre>
1.6 grr 71: </ul>
72: <li><strong>Sparc</strong>
73: <ul>
1.5 todd 74: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
75: due to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
76: type:
77: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
78: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
79: </pre>
1.6 grr 80: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
81: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
82: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
83: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
84: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
85: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
86: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
87: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
88: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
89: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
90: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
91: </pre>
1.19 graichen 92: <li>The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
93: and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
94: then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
95: following sequence of commands before starting the install
96: script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
97: booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
98: the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
99: prompt:
100: if you install from CD-ROM do the following:
101: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
102: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
103: wq
104: <b>#</b>
105: </pre>
106: ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
107: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
108: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
109: wq
110: <b>#</b>
111: </pre>
112: The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
113: installing from from CD-ROM)
114: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
115: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
116: wq
117: <b>#</b>
118: </pre>
1.6 grr 119: </ul>
1.9 graichen 120: <li><strong>Pmax</strong>
121: <ul>
1.10 millert 122: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
1.9 graichen 123: errors like:
124: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
125: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
126: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
127: </pre>
128: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
129: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
130: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
131: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
132: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
133: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
134: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
135: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
136: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
137: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
138: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
139: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
140: </pre>
141: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
142: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
143: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
144: </ul>
1.18 deraadt 145: <p>
1.17 deraadt 146: <li><strong>Mac68k</strong>
147: <ul>
1.20 gene 148: <li>The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such as "file system read-only" on bootup.
149: To correct, boot to single-user mode (by clicking that checkbox in the Booter's Booting:Options dialog) and do the following:
1.17 deraadt 150: <pre>
1.18 deraadt 151: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
152: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
153: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
1.20 gene 154: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
1.18 deraadt 155: w
156: q
1.17 deraadt 157: </pre>
1.20 gene 158: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
159: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
160: (read-only). In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
161: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
1.17 deraadt 162: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
163: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
1.20 gene 164:
1.17 deraadt 165: <li>The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
1.20 gene 166: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
167: be tar'ed and gzip'ed. The kernel was not shipped that way. Therefore, you
168: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
1.17 deraadt 169: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
170: <pre>
1.20 gene 171: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
172: </pre>
173: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
174: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your deskpto to
175: wherever you have placed the kernel. If possible, it is easiest to drag the
176: kernel onto the desktop, so you can simply issue a command like:
177: <pre>
178: > cpin :bsd-generic bsd
1.17 deraadt 179: </pre>
1.20 gene 180: Good luck.
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