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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
1.34 deraadt 26: source tree read/write, or install a /usr/bin/readlink based on
27: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/readlink/readlink.c?rev=1.13>
28: revision 1.13 of usr.bin/readlink/readlink.c</a>.
1.25 deraadt 29: </ul>
1.27 deraadt 30: <li><strong>alpha</strong>
31: <ul>
32: <li>No problems so far.
33: </ul>
34: <li><strong>amiga</strong>
35: <ul>
36: <li>No problems so far.
37: </ul>
38: <li><strong>hp300</strong>
1.25 deraadt 39: <ul>
40: <li>No problems so far.
41: </ul>
42: <li><strong>i386</strong>
43: <ul>
1.30 deraadt 44: <li>The i386 F00F bug was discovered after the CDR's had already been sent to
45: the manufacturer.
46: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/i386/patch.f00f>
47: A patch is available</a>.
1.33 deraadt 48: <li>Some Linux binaries will execute in SVR4 emulation mode, which is
49: definately a problem for people who need Linux emulation to work correctly.
50: To solve this,
1.32 deraadt 51: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/i386/compat_linux.patch>
1.33 deraadt 52: a patch file is provided.</a> (This patch works on OpenBSD current. It has
53: not been tested on 2.2 yet, please test this and mail deraadt@openbsd.org
54: so that I can remove this message).
1.25 deraadt 55: </ul>
56: <li><strong>sparc</strong>
57: <ul>
1.26 deraadt 58: <li>No problems so far.
1.25 deraadt 59: </ul>
60: <li><strong>mac68k</strong>
61: <ul>
1.35 deraadt 62: <li>mac68k X11 did not manage to make it onto the CDROM -- it will be
1.36 ! deraadt 63: forthcoming. Send mail to bother
! 64: <a href="mailto:gene@openbsd.org">the maintainer</a>
1.35 deraadt 65: so that it shows up soon!
1.25 deraadt 66: </ul>
67: <li><strong>pmax</strong>
68: <ul>
69: <li>No problems so far.
70: </ul>
71: <li><strong>arc</strong>
72: <ul>
73: <li>No problems so far.
74: </ul>
75: <li><strong>mvme68k</strong>
76: <ul>
77: <li>No problems so far.
78: </ul>
79: </ul>
80: <br>
81: <hr>
82: <h2>This is the OpenBSD 2.1 CD errata list:</h2>
1.13 pefo 83: <br>
1.14 pefo 84: <ul>
1.13 pefo 85: <li><strong>All architectures</strong>
86: <ul>
87: <li>One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
88: when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
89: To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
90: starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
91: kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
92: is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
1.16 pefo 93: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
94: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
95: wq
1.13 pefo 96: <b>#</b>
97: </pre>
1.22 niklas 98: For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
99: (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
1.29 todd 100: prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command. After
1.22 niklas 101: that you can restart the install by:
102: <pre><b>#</b> install
103: </pre>
1.13 pefo 104: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 105: <br>
1.6 grr 106: <li><strong>Alpha</strong>
107: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 108: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
1.3 deraadt 109: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
110: harder..
1.6 grr 111: </ul>
1.11 millert 112: <br>
1.7 deraadt 113: <li><strong>i386</strong>
114: <ul>
115: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
116: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
117: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
118: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
119: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
1.24 mickey 120: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
1.8 deraadt 121: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
1.24 mickey 122: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
1.8 deraadt 123: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
124: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
125: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
126: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
1.21 deraadt 127: <li>A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
128: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
129: problems. Read the document, please.
1.7 deraadt 130: </ul>
1.11 millert 131: <br>
1.6 grr 132: <li><strong>Amiga</strong>
133: <ul>
1.4 niklas 134: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
135: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
136: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
137: user mode and do:
1.5 todd 138: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
1.4 niklas 139: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
140: </pre>
1.6 grr 141: </ul>
142: <li><strong>Sparc</strong>
143: <ul>
1.5 todd 144: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
145: due to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
146: type:
147: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
148: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
149: </pre>
1.6 grr 150: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
151: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
152: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
153: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
154: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
155: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
156: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
157: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
158: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
159: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
160: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
161: </pre>
1.19 graichen 162: <li>The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
163: and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
164: then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
165: following sequence of commands before starting the install
166: script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
167: booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
168: the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
169: prompt:
170: if you install from CD-ROM do the following:
171: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
172: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
173: wq
174: <b>#</b>
175: </pre>
176: ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
177: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
178: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
179: wq
180: <b>#</b>
181: </pre>
182: The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
183: installing from from CD-ROM)
184: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
185: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
186: wq
187: <b>#</b>
188: </pre>
1.6 grr 189: </ul>
1.9 graichen 190: <li><strong>Pmax</strong>
191: <ul>
1.10 millert 192: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
1.9 graichen 193: errors like:
194: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
195: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
196: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
197: </pre>
198: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
199: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
200: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
201: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
202: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
203: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
204: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
205: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
206: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
207: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
208: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
209: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
210: </pre>
211: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
212: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
213: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
214: </ul>
1.18 deraadt 215: <p>
1.17 deraadt 216: <li><strong>Mac68k</strong>
217: <ul>
1.20 gene 218: <li>The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such as "file system read-only" on bootup.
219: 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 220: <pre>
1.18 deraadt 221: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
222: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
223: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
1.20 gene 224: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
1.18 deraadt 225: w
226: q
1.17 deraadt 227: </pre>
1.20 gene 228: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
229: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
230: (read-only). In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
231: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
1.17 deraadt 232: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
233: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
1.20 gene 234:
1.17 deraadt 235: <li>The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
1.20 gene 236: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
237: be tar'ed and gzip'ed. The kernel was not shipped that way. Therefore, you
238: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
1.17 deraadt 239: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
240: <pre>
1.20 gene 241: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
242: </pre>
243: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
1.23 gene 244: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
1.20 gene 245: wherever you have placed the kernel. If possible, it is easiest to drag the
1.23 gene 246: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
247: command without leading colon(s) like:
1.20 gene 248: <pre>
1.23 gene 249: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
1.17 deraadt 250: </pre>
1.20 gene 251: Good luck.
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