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1.25 deraadt 18: <hr>
19: <h2>This is the OpenBSD 2.2 CD errata list:</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><strong>All architectures</strong>
22: <ul>
1.28 niklas 23: <li>Building an object tree from a readonly source tree may fail under certain
24: circumstances (e.g. when creating a symlink on sparc whose target name is
25: exactly 33 characters). As a workaround you have to either provide the
26: source tree read/write, or install a /usr/bin/readlink based on revision
27: 1.13 of usr.bin/readlink/readlink.c.
1.25 deraadt 28: </ul>
1.27 deraadt 29: <li><strong>alpha</strong>
30: <ul>
31: <li>No problems so far.
32: </ul>
33: <li><strong>amiga</strong>
34: <ul>
35: <li>No problems so far.
36: </ul>
37: <li><strong>hp300</strong>
1.25 deraadt 38: <ul>
39: <li>No problems so far.
40: </ul>
41: <li><strong>i386</strong>
42: <ul>
43: <li>No problems so far.
44: </ul>
45: <li><strong>sparc</strong>
46: <ul>
1.26 deraadt 47: <li>No problems so far.
1.25 deraadt 48: </ul>
49: <li><strong>mac68k</strong>
50: <ul>
1.26 deraadt 51: <li>No problems so far.
1.25 deraadt 52: </ul>
53: <li><strong>pmax</strong>
54: <ul>
55: <li>No problems so far.
56: </ul>
57: <li><strong>arc</strong>
58: <ul>
59: <li>No problems so far.
60: </ul>
61: <li><strong>mvme68k</strong>
62: <ul>
63: <li>No problems so far.
64: </ul>
65: </ul>
66: <br>
67: <hr>
68: <h2>This is the OpenBSD 2.1 CD errata list:</h2>
1.13 pefo 69: <br>
1.14 pefo 70: <ul>
1.13 pefo 71: <li><strong>All architectures</strong>
72: <ul>
73: <li>One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
74: when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
75: To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
76: starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
77: kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
78: is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
1.16 pefo 79: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
80: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
81: wq
1.13 pefo 82: <b>#</b>
83: </pre>
1.22 niklas 84: For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
85: (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
1.29 ! todd 86: prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command. After
1.22 niklas 87: that you can restart the install by:
88: <pre><b>#</b> install
89: </pre>
1.13 pefo 90: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 91: <br>
1.6 grr 92: <li><strong>Alpha</strong>
93: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 94: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
1.3 deraadt 95: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
96: harder..
1.6 grr 97: </ul>
1.11 millert 98: <br>
1.7 deraadt 99: <li><strong>i386</strong>
100: <ul>
101: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
102: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
103: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
104: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
105: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
1.24 mickey 106: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
1.8 deraadt 107: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
1.24 mickey 108: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
1.8 deraadt 109: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
110: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
111: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
112: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
1.21 deraadt 113: <li>A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
114: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
115: problems. Read the document, please.
1.7 deraadt 116: </ul>
1.11 millert 117: <br>
1.6 grr 118: <li><strong>Amiga</strong>
119: <ul>
1.4 niklas 120: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
121: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
122: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
123: user mode and do:
1.5 todd 124: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
1.4 niklas 125: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
126: </pre>
1.6 grr 127: </ul>
128: <li><strong>Sparc</strong>
129: <ul>
1.5 todd 130: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
131: due to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
132: type:
133: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
134: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
135: </pre>
1.6 grr 136: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
137: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
138: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
139: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
140: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
141: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
142: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
143: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
144: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
145: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
146: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
147: </pre>
1.19 graichen 148: <li>The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
149: and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
150: then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
151: following sequence of commands before starting the install
152: script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
153: booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
154: the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
155: prompt:
156: if you install from CD-ROM do the following:
157: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
158: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
159: wq
160: <b>#</b>
161: </pre>
162: ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
163: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
164: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
165: wq
166: <b>#</b>
167: </pre>
168: The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
169: installing from from CD-ROM)
170: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
171: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
172: wq
173: <b>#</b>
174: </pre>
1.6 grr 175: </ul>
1.9 graichen 176: <li><strong>Pmax</strong>
177: <ul>
1.10 millert 178: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
1.9 graichen 179: errors like:
180: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
181: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
182: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
183: </pre>
184: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
185: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
186: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
187: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
188: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
189: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
190: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
191: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
192: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
193: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
194: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
195: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
196: </pre>
197: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
198: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
199: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
200: </ul>
1.18 deraadt 201: <p>
1.17 deraadt 202: <li><strong>Mac68k</strong>
203: <ul>
1.20 gene 204: <li>The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such as "file system read-only" on bootup.
205: 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 206: <pre>
1.18 deraadt 207: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
208: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
209: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
1.20 gene 210: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
1.18 deraadt 211: w
212: q
1.17 deraadt 213: </pre>
1.20 gene 214: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
215: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
216: (read-only). In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
217: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
1.17 deraadt 218: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
219: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
1.20 gene 220:
1.17 deraadt 221: <li>The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
1.20 gene 222: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
223: be tar'ed and gzip'ed. The kernel was not shipped that way. Therefore, you
224: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
1.17 deraadt 225: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
226: <pre>
1.20 gene 227: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
228: </pre>
229: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
1.23 gene 230: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
1.20 gene 231: wherever you have placed the kernel. If possible, it is easiest to drag the
1.23 gene 232: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
233: command without leading colon(s) like:
1.20 gene 234: <pre>
1.23 gene 235: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
1.17 deraadt 236: </pre>
1.20 gene 237: Good luck.
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