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1.50 deraadt 16: <h3><font color=#0000e0>This is the OpenBSD 2.2 CD errata list:</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 17: <ul>
1.43 deraadt 18: <a name=all></a>
1.50 deraadt 19: <li><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font>
1.25 deraadt 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>
1.50 deraadt 31: <li><font color=#e00000>i386</font>
1.25 deraadt 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).
1.44 deraadt 38: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/i386/f00f.patch>
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>
1.56 ! deraadt 45: a patch file is provided.</a>
1.39 deraadt 46: <p>
1.45 deraadt 47: <li>APM can crash on machines without it.
48: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/i386/apm.patch>
49: A kernel source-code patch is available</a>.
50: <p>
1.39 deraadt 51: <li>A few people are running into this problem, particularily if they had some
52: other *BSD operating system on their machine before trying OpenBSD: if after
53: installation onto an IDE-based machine, the kernel fails to mount the root
54: partition because it thinks that it should be opening sd0 (0x400), this means
55: you have incorrectly setup your disklabel for the IDE drive -- the disklabel
56: is indicating that the drive is SCSI.
57: To repair this, use the floppy to run "disklabel -E wd0", then using the
58: "edit" command ensure the type field is set to "ST506".
59: <p>
60: </ul>
1.47 deraadt 61: <a name=mac68k></a>
1.50 deraadt 62: <li><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font>
1.39 deraadt 63: <ul>
1.46 gene 64: <li>Unfortunately, X11 binaries for the mac68k did not manage to make it onto the
65: CDROM. However, X Windows for the mac68k is immediately available from
66: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.2/mac68k/X11/X11R6.tar.gz">
67: ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.2/mac68k/X11/X11R6.tar.gz</a>. Please
68: be sure to read the <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.2/mac68k/X11/README.X11">README file</a> also in that directory for instructions on installing
69: and setting up X.
1.39 deraadt 70: <p>
1.25 deraadt 71: </ul>
1.50 deraadt 72: <li><font color=#e00000>sparc</font>
1.25 deraadt 73: <ul>
1.54 jason 74: <li>Older 4/xxx systems (particuluarly the 4/300's) cannot boot with the
75: 2.2 kernel. A new release is being built, but if you're in a hurry,
1.55 jason 76: mail <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason Wright</a> for a test kernel.
1.39 deraadt 77: <p>
78: </ul>
1.50 deraadt 79: <li><font color=#e00000>amiga</font>
1.39 deraadt 80: <p>
81: <ul>
1.48 niklas 82: <li>Missing Xamiga manual page. Get
83: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/amiga/Xamiga-manual.tgz>
84: this package</a> and execute, <i>as root</i>:<br>
1.49 deraadt 85: <pre><b># </b>pkg_add Xamiga-manual.tgz</pre>
1.51 deraadt 86: The MD5 checksum of this package is:<br>
1.49 deraadt 87: <b>MD5 (Xamiga-manual.tgz) = 2362a7857264b9d17f65cca258b42031</b><p>
1.48 niklas 88: <li>The Ariadne ethernet support was broken, there will be both binary and
89: source level fixes available shortly. If you are in a hurry mail
1.49 deraadt 90: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas</a> for a test kernel.<p>
1.25 deraadt 91: </ul>
1.50 deraadt 92: <li><font color=#e00000>pmax</font>
1.25 deraadt 93: <ul>
1.53 deraadt 94: <li>There is a Year-1998 problem in the time-setting code (which causes the
95: date and time to be set incorrectly after a reboot in 1998).
96: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/pmax/clock.patch>
97: A source code patch file is available.</a> plus replacement installation
98: kernels for the 2.2 release at
99: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/pmax/bsd.NFS>bsd.NFS</a>,
100: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/pmax/bsd>bsd</a>,
101: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/pmax/bsd.rz0>bsd.rz0</a>.
102: <li>X11 support for the 3min and 3maxplus machines was broken
103: due to a kernel bug.
104: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/pmax/fb.patch>
105: A source code patch is available</a>.
1.39 deraadt 106: <p>
1.25 deraadt 107: </ul>
1.56 ! deraadt 108: <li><font color=#e00000>alpha</font>
! 109: <p>
! 110: <ul>
! 111: <li>No problems identified yet.
! 112: <p>
! 113: </ul>
! 114: <li><font color=#e00000>hp300</font>
! 115: <p>
! 116: <ul>
! 117: <li>No problems identified yet.
! 118: <p>
! 119: </ul>
1.50 deraadt 120: <li><font color=#e00000>arc</font>
1.25 deraadt 121: <ul>
1.39 deraadt 122: <li>No problems identified yet.
123: <p>
1.25 deraadt 124: </ul>
1.50 deraadt 125: <li><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font>
1.25 deraadt 126: <ul>
1.39 deraadt 127: <li>No problems identified yet.
128: <p>
1.25 deraadt 129: </ul>
130: </ul>
131: <br>
132: <hr>
1.50 deraadt 133: <h3><font color=#0000e0>This is the OpenBSD 2.1 CD errata list:</font></h3>
1.13 pefo 134: <br>
1.14 pefo 135: <ul>
1.50 deraadt 136: <li><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font>
1.13 pefo 137: <ul>
138: <li>One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
139: when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
140: To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
141: starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
142: kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
143: is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
1.16 pefo 144: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
145: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
146: wq
1.13 pefo 147: <b>#</b>
148: </pre>
1.22 niklas 149: For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
150: (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
1.29 todd 151: prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command. After
1.22 niklas 152: that you can restart the install by:
153: <pre><b>#</b> install
154: </pre>
1.13 pefo 155: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 156: <br>
1.50 deraadt 157: <li><font color=#e00000>Alpha</font>
1.6 grr 158: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 159: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
1.3 deraadt 160: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
161: harder..
1.6 grr 162: </ul>
1.11 millert 163: <br>
1.50 deraadt 164: <li><font color=#e00000>i386</font>
1.7 deraadt 165: <ul>
166: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
167: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
168: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
169: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
170: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
1.24 mickey 171: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
1.8 deraadt 172: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
1.24 mickey 173: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
1.8 deraadt 174: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
175: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
176: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
177: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
1.21 deraadt 178: <li>A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
179: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
180: problems. Read the document, please.
1.7 deraadt 181: </ul>
1.11 millert 182: <br>
1.50 deraadt 183: <li><font color=#e00000>Amiga</font>
1.6 grr 184: <ul>
1.4 niklas 185: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
186: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
187: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
188: user mode and do:
1.5 todd 189: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
1.4 niklas 190: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
191: </pre>
1.6 grr 192: </ul>
1.50 deraadt 193: <li><font color=#e00000>Sparc</font>
1.6 grr 194: <ul>
1.5 todd 195: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
196: due to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
197: type:
198: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
199: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
200: </pre>
1.6 grr 201: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
202: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
203: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
204: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
205: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
206: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
207: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
208: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
209: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
210: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
211: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
212: </pre>
1.19 graichen 213: <li>The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
214: and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
215: then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
216: following sequence of commands before starting the install
217: script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
218: booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
219: the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
220: prompt:
221: if you install from CD-ROM do the following:
222: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
223: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
224: wq
225: <b>#</b>
226: </pre>
227: ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
228: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
229: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
230: wq
231: <b>#</b>
232: </pre>
233: The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
234: installing from from CD-ROM)
235: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
236: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
237: wq
238: <b>#</b>
239: </pre>
1.6 grr 240: </ul>
1.50 deraadt 241: <li><font color=#e00000>Pmax</font>
1.9 graichen 242: <ul>
1.10 millert 243: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
1.9 graichen 244: errors like:
245: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
246: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
247: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
248: </pre>
249: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
250: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
251: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
252: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
253: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
254: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
255: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
256: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
257: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
258: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
259: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
260: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
261: </pre>
262: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
263: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
264: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
265: </ul>
1.18 deraadt 266: <p>
1.50 deraadt 267: <li><font color=#e00000>Mac68k</font>
1.17 deraadt 268: <ul>
1.20 gene 269: <li>The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such as "file system read-only" on bootup.
270: 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 271: <pre>
1.18 deraadt 272: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
273: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
274: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
1.20 gene 275: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
1.18 deraadt 276: w
277: q
1.17 deraadt 278: </pre>
1.20 gene 279: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
280: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
281: (read-only). In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
282: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
1.17 deraadt 283: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
284: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
1.20 gene 285:
1.17 deraadt 286: <li>The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
1.20 gene 287: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
288: be tar'ed and gzip'ed. The kernel was not shipped that way. Therefore, you
289: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
1.17 deraadt 290: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
291: <pre>
1.20 gene 292: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
293: </pre>
294: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
1.23 gene 295: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
1.20 gene 296: wherever you have placed the kernel. If possible, it is easiest to drag the
1.23 gene 297: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
298: command without leading colon(s) like:
1.20 gene 299: <pre>
1.23 gene 300: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
1.17 deraadt 301: </pre>
1.20 gene 302: Good luck.
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