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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
1.31 deraadt 27: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/readlink/readlink.c?rev=1.13>1.13 of usr.bin/readlink/readlink.c</a>.
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>
1.30 deraadt 43: <li>The i386 F00F bug was discovered after the CDR's had already been sent to
44: the manufacturer.
45: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/i386/patch.f00f>
46: A patch is available</a>.
1.32 ! deraadt 47: <li>Some Linux emulation binaries will execute in SVR4 mode, which is
! 48: definately a problem. To solve this,
! 49: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/i386/compat_linux.patch>
! 50: a patch file is provided.</a> (This has not been test on 2.2, please test this
! 51: and mail deraadt@openbsd.org so that I can remove this message).
1.25 deraadt 52: </ul>
53: <li><strong>sparc</strong>
54: <ul>
1.26 deraadt 55: <li>No problems so far.
1.25 deraadt 56: </ul>
57: <li><strong>mac68k</strong>
58: <ul>
1.26 deraadt 59: <li>No problems so far.
1.25 deraadt 60: </ul>
61: <li><strong>pmax</strong>
62: <ul>
63: <li>No problems so far.
64: </ul>
65: <li><strong>arc</strong>
66: <ul>
67: <li>No problems so far.
68: </ul>
69: <li><strong>mvme68k</strong>
70: <ul>
71: <li>No problems so far.
72: </ul>
73: </ul>
74: <br>
75: <hr>
76: <h2>This is the OpenBSD 2.1 CD errata list:</h2>
1.13 pefo 77: <br>
1.14 pefo 78: <ul>
1.13 pefo 79: <li><strong>All architectures</strong>
80: <ul>
81: <li>One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
82: when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
83: To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
84: starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
85: kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
86: is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
1.16 pefo 87: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
88: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
89: wq
1.13 pefo 90: <b>#</b>
91: </pre>
1.22 niklas 92: For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
93: (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
1.29 todd 94: prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command. After
1.22 niklas 95: that you can restart the install by:
96: <pre><b>#</b> install
97: </pre>
1.13 pefo 98: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 99: <br>
1.6 grr 100: <li><strong>Alpha</strong>
101: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 102: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
1.3 deraadt 103: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
104: harder..
1.6 grr 105: </ul>
1.11 millert 106: <br>
1.7 deraadt 107: <li><strong>i386</strong>
108: <ul>
109: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
110: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
111: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
112: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
113: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
1.24 mickey 114: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
1.8 deraadt 115: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
1.24 mickey 116: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
1.8 deraadt 117: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
118: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
119: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
120: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
1.21 deraadt 121: <li>A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
122: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
123: problems. Read the document, please.
1.7 deraadt 124: </ul>
1.11 millert 125: <br>
1.6 grr 126: <li><strong>Amiga</strong>
127: <ul>
1.4 niklas 128: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
129: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
130: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
131: user mode and do:
1.5 todd 132: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
1.4 niklas 133: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
134: </pre>
1.6 grr 135: </ul>
136: <li><strong>Sparc</strong>
137: <ul>
1.5 todd 138: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
139: due to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
140: type:
141: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
142: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
143: </pre>
1.6 grr 144: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
145: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
146: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
147: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
148: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
149: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
150: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
151: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
152: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
153: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
154: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
155: </pre>
1.19 graichen 156: <li>The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
157: and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
158: then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
159: following sequence of commands before starting the install
160: script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
161: booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
162: the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
163: prompt:
164: if you install from CD-ROM do the following:
165: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
166: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
167: wq
168: <b>#</b>
169: </pre>
170: ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
171: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
172: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
173: wq
174: <b>#</b>
175: </pre>
176: The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
177: installing from from CD-ROM)
178: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
179: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
180: wq
181: <b>#</b>
182: </pre>
1.6 grr 183: </ul>
1.9 graichen 184: <li><strong>Pmax</strong>
185: <ul>
1.10 millert 186: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
1.9 graichen 187: errors like:
188: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
189: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
190: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
191: </pre>
192: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
193: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
194: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
195: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
196: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
197: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
198: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
199: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
200: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
201: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
202: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
203: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
204: </pre>
205: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
206: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
207: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
208: </ul>
1.18 deraadt 209: <p>
1.17 deraadt 210: <li><strong>Mac68k</strong>
211: <ul>
1.20 gene 212: <li>The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such as "file system read-only" on bootup.
213: 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 214: <pre>
1.18 deraadt 215: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
216: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
217: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
1.20 gene 218: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
1.18 deraadt 219: w
220: q
1.17 deraadt 221: </pre>
1.20 gene 222: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
223: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
224: (read-only). In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
225: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
1.17 deraadt 226: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
227: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
1.20 gene 228:
1.17 deraadt 229: <li>The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
1.20 gene 230: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
231: be tar'ed and gzip'ed. The kernel was not shipped that way. Therefore, you
232: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
1.17 deraadt 233: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
234: <pre>
1.20 gene 235: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
236: </pre>
237: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
1.23 gene 238: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
1.20 gene 239: wherever you have placed the kernel. If possible, it is easiest to drag the
1.23 gene 240: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
241: command without leading colon(s) like:
1.20 gene 242: <pre>
1.23 gene 243: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
1.17 deraadt 244: </pre>
1.20 gene 245: Good luck.
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