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1.25      deraadt    16: <h2>This is the OpenBSD 2.2 CD errata list:</h2>
                     17: <ul>
1.43    ! deraadt    18: <a name=all></a>
1.25      deraadt    19: <li><strong>All architectures</strong>
                     20: <ul>
1.39      deraadt    21: <li>Building an object tree from a read-only source tree (such as off a CDROM)
                     22: may fail under certain circumstances (e.g. when creating a symlink on sparc
                     23: whose target name is exactly 33 characters).  As a workaround you have to
                     24: either provide the source tree read/write, or install a newer version of
                     25: /usr/bin/readlink.  You wish to use
1.34      deraadt    26: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/readlink/readlink.c?rev=1.13>
                     27: revision 1.13 of usr.bin/readlink/readlink.c</a>.
1.39      deraadt    28: <p>
1.25      deraadt    29: </ul>
1.42      deraadt    30: <a name=i386></a>
1.25      deraadt    31: <li><strong>i386</strong>
                     32: <ul>
1.39      deraadt    33: <li>The Intel P5 F00F bug was discovered after the CDR's had already been
                     34: sent to the manufacturer.  This problem permits any user who has an account
                     35: to lock your machine up using a 4-line program.  The problem only affects
                     36: Intel P5 processors (the i386, i486, P-Pro, and P-II are not vulnerable,
                     37: nor are processors by other manufacturers).
1.30      deraadt    38: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/i386/patch.f00f>
1.39      deraadt    39: A kernel source-code patch is available</a>.
                     40: <p>
1.33      deraadt    41: <li>Some Linux binaries will execute in SVR4 emulation mode, which is
                     42: definately a problem for people who need Linux emulation to work correctly.
1.39      deraadt    43: To solve this mis-identification problem,
1.32      deraadt    44: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/i386/compat_linux.patch>
1.33      deraadt    45: a patch file is provided.</a>  (This patch works on OpenBSD current.  It has
                     46: not been tested on 2.2 yet, please test this and mail deraadt@openbsd.org
1.39      deraadt    47: so that I can remove this bracketed warning).
                     48: <p>
                     49: <li>A few people are running into this problem, particularily if they had some
                     50: other *BSD operating system on their machine before trying OpenBSD: if after
                     51: installation onto an IDE-based machine, the kernel fails to mount the root
                     52: partition because it thinks that it should be opening sd0 (0x400), this means
                     53: you have incorrectly setup your disklabel for the IDE drive -- the disklabel
                     54: is indicating that the drive is SCSI.
                     55: To repair this, use the floppy to run "disklabel -E wd0", then using the
                     56: "edit" command ensure the type field is set to "ST506".
                     57: <p>
                     58: </ul>
                     59: <li><strong>mac68k</strong>
                     60: <ul>
                     61: <li>Working X11 binaries for the mac68k did not manage to make it onto the
                     62: CDROM -- a pointer to these binaries will be provided here as soon as the
                     63: binaries are available.
                     64: Send mail to bother
                     65: <a href="mailto:gene@openbsd.org">the maintainer</a>
                     66: so that it shows up soon!
                     67: <p>
1.25      deraadt    68: </ul>
                     69: <li><strong>sparc</strong>
                     70: <ul>
1.39      deraadt    71: <li>No problems identified yet.
                     72: <p>
                     73: </ul>
                     74: <li><strong>alpha</strong>
                     75: <p>
                     76: <ul>
                     77: <li>No problems identified yet.
                     78: <p>
                     79: </ul>
                     80: <li><strong>amiga</strong>
                     81: <p>
                     82: <ul>
                     83: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.25      deraadt    84: </ul>
1.39      deraadt    85: <li><strong>hp300</strong>
                     86: <p>
1.25      deraadt    87: <ul>
1.39      deraadt    88: <li>No problems identified yet.
                     89: <p>
1.25      deraadt    90: </ul>
                     91: <li><strong>pmax</strong>
                     92: <ul>
1.39      deraadt    93: <li>No problems identified yet.
                     94: <p>
1.25      deraadt    95: </ul>
                     96: <li><strong>arc</strong>
                     97: <ul>
1.39      deraadt    98: <li>No problems identified yet.
                     99: <p>
1.25      deraadt   100: </ul>
                    101: <li><strong>mvme68k</strong>
                    102: <ul>
1.39      deraadt   103: <li>No problems identified yet.
                    104: <p>
1.25      deraadt   105: </ul>
                    106: </ul>
                    107: <br>
                    108: <hr>
                    109: <h2>This is the OpenBSD 2.1 CD errata list:</h2>
1.13      pefo      110: <br>
1.14      pefo      111: <ul>
1.13      pefo      112: <li><strong>All architectures</strong>
                    113: <ul>
                    114: <li>One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
                    115:        when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
                    116:        To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
                    117:        starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
                    118:        kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
                    119:        is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
1.16      pefo      120: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
                    121: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
                    122: wq
1.13      pefo      123: <b>#</b>
                    124: </pre>
1.22      niklas    125:        For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
                    126:        (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
1.29      todd      127:        prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command.  After
1.22      niklas    128:        that you can restart the install by:
                    129: <pre><b>#</b> install
                    130: </pre>
1.13      pefo      131: </ul>
1.1       deraadt   132: <br>
1.6       grr       133: <li><strong>Alpha</strong>
                    134: <ul>
1.1       deraadt   135: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
1.3       deraadt   136:        must use the floppy install method.  This is not significantly
                    137:        harder..
1.6       grr       138: </ul>
1.11      millert   139: <br>
1.7       deraadt   140: <li><strong>i386</strong>
                    141: <ul>
                    142: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
                    143: as a MBR.  The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
                    144: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
                    145: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
                    146: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
1.24      mickey    147: non-zero offset.  For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
1.8       deraadt   148: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
1.24      mickey    149: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
1.8       deraadt   150: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
                    151: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
                    152: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
                    153: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
1.21      deraadt   154: <li>A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
                    155: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
                    156: problems.  Read the document, please.
1.7       deraadt   157: </ul>
1.11      millert   158: <br>
1.6       grr       159: <li><strong>Amiga</strong>
                    160: <ul>
1.4       niklas    161: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
                    162:        multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt.  This is due to
                    163:        a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script.  To fix, enter single
                    164:        user mode and do:
1.5       todd      165: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
1.4       niklas    166: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
                    167: </pre>
1.6       grr       168: </ul>
                    169: <li><strong>Sparc</strong>
                    170: <ul>
1.5       todd      171: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
                    172:        due to X11R6.3's default config file contents.  To fix, su and
                    173:        type:
                    174: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
                    175: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
                    176: </pre>
1.6       grr       177: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
                    178:        "dumb" in response to the terminal type query.  As a work-around
                    179:        first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
                    180:        again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
                    181: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
                    182:        may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
                    183:        to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks.  If this occurs
                    184:        create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
                    185: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
                    186: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
                    187: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
                    188: </pre>
1.19      graichen  189: <li>The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
                    190:        and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
                    191:        then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
                    192:        following sequence of commands before starting the install
                    193:        script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
                    194:        booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
                    195:        the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
                    196:        prompt:
                    197:         if you install from CD-ROM do the following:
                    198: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
                    199: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
                    200: wq
                    201: <b>#</b>
                    202: </pre>
                    203:         ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
                    204: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
                    205: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
                    206: wq
                    207: <b>#</b>
                    208: </pre>
                    209:         The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
                    210:        installing from from CD-ROM)
                    211: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
                    212: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
                    213: wq
                    214: <b>#</b>
                    215: </pre>
1.6       grr       216: </ul>
1.9       graichen  217: <li><strong>Pmax</strong>
                    218: <ul>
1.10      millert   219: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
1.9       graichen  220: errors like:
                    221: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
                    222: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
                    223: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
                    224: </pre>
                    225: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
                    226: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
                    227: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
                    228: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
                    229: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
                    230: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
                    231: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
                    232: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
                    233: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
                    234: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
                    235: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
                    236: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
                    237: </pre>
                    238: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
                    239: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
                    240: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
                    241: </ul>
1.18      deraadt   242: <p>
1.17      deraadt   243: <li><strong>Mac68k</strong>
                    244: <ul>
1.20      gene      245: <li>The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such as "file system read-only" on bootup.
                    246: 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   247: <pre>
1.18      deraadt   248: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
                    249: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
                    250: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
1.20      gene      251: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
1.18      deraadt   252: w
                    253: q
1.17      deraadt   254: </pre>
1.20      gene      255: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
                    256: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
                    257: (read-only).  In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
                    258: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
1.17      deraadt   259: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
                    260: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
1.20      gene      261:
1.17      deraadt   262: <li>The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
1.20      gene      263: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
                    264: be tar'ed and gzip'ed.  The kernel was not shipped that way.  Therefore, you
                    265: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
1.17      deraadt   266: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
                    267: <pre>
1.20      gene      268: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
                    269: </pre>
                    270: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
1.23      gene      271: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
1.20      gene      272: wherever you have placed the kernel.  If possible, it is easiest to drag the
1.23      gene      273: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
                    274: command without leading colon(s) like:
1.20      gene      275: <pre>
1.23      gene      276: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
1.17      deraadt   277: </pre>
1.20      gene      278: Good luck.
1.17      deraadt   279: </ul>
1.1       deraadt   280: </ul>
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