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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>
1.58 ! deraadt 74: <li>Older 4/xxx systems (particularily the 4/300's) cannot boot
! 75: with the 2.2 kernel due to bugs in the scsi device driver.
1.57 jason 76: <a href=ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/sparc/esp.patch>
77: A kernel source patch is available.</a>
1.58 ! deraadt 78: A replacement kernel and miniroot will show up soon.
1.39 deraadt 79: <p>
80: </ul>
1.50 deraadt 81: <li><font color=#e00000>amiga</font>
1.39 deraadt 82: <p>
83: <ul>
1.48 niklas 84: <li>Missing Xamiga manual page. Get
85: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/amiga/Xamiga-manual.tgz>
86: this package</a> and execute, <i>as root</i>:<br>
1.49 deraadt 87: <pre><b># </b>pkg_add Xamiga-manual.tgz</pre>
1.51 deraadt 88: The MD5 checksum of this package is:<br>
1.49 deraadt 89: <b>MD5 (Xamiga-manual.tgz) = 2362a7857264b9d17f65cca258b42031</b><p>
1.48 niklas 90: <li>The Ariadne ethernet support was broken, there will be both binary and
91: source level fixes available shortly. If you are in a hurry mail
1.49 deraadt 92: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas</a> for a test kernel.<p>
1.25 deraadt 93: </ul>
1.50 deraadt 94: <li><font color=#e00000>pmax</font>
1.25 deraadt 95: <ul>
1.53 deraadt 96: <li>There is a Year-1998 problem in the time-setting code (which causes the
97: date and time to be set incorrectly after a reboot in 1998).
98: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/pmax/clock.patch>
99: A source code patch file is available.</a> plus replacement installation
100: kernels for the 2.2 release at
101: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/pmax/bsd.NFS>bsd.NFS</a>,
102: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/pmax/bsd>bsd</a>,
103: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/pmax/bsd.rz0>bsd.rz0</a>.
104: <li>X11 support for the 3min and 3maxplus machines was broken
105: due to a kernel bug.
106: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.2/pmax/fb.patch>
107: A source code patch is available</a>.
1.39 deraadt 108: <p>
1.25 deraadt 109: </ul>
1.56 deraadt 110: <li><font color=#e00000>alpha</font>
111: <p>
112: <ul>
113: <li>No problems identified yet.
114: <p>
115: </ul>
116: <li><font color=#e00000>hp300</font>
117: <p>
118: <ul>
119: <li>No problems identified yet.
120: <p>
121: </ul>
1.50 deraadt 122: <li><font color=#e00000>arc</font>
1.25 deraadt 123: <ul>
1.39 deraadt 124: <li>No problems identified yet.
125: <p>
1.25 deraadt 126: </ul>
1.50 deraadt 127: <li><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font>
1.25 deraadt 128: <ul>
1.39 deraadt 129: <li>No problems identified yet.
130: <p>
1.25 deraadt 131: </ul>
132: </ul>
133: <br>
134: <hr>
1.50 deraadt 135: <h3><font color=#0000e0>This is the OpenBSD 2.1 CD errata list:</font></h3>
1.13 pefo 136: <br>
1.14 pefo 137: <ul>
1.50 deraadt 138: <li><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font>
1.13 pefo 139: <ul>
140: <li>One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
141: when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
142: To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
143: starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
144: kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
145: is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
1.16 pefo 146: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
147: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
148: wq
1.13 pefo 149: <b>#</b>
150: </pre>
1.22 niklas 151: For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
152: (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
1.29 todd 153: prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command. After
1.22 niklas 154: that you can restart the install by:
155: <pre><b>#</b> install
156: </pre>
1.13 pefo 157: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 158: <br>
1.50 deraadt 159: <li><font color=#e00000>Alpha</font>
1.6 grr 160: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 161: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
1.3 deraadt 162: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
163: harder..
1.6 grr 164: </ul>
1.11 millert 165: <br>
1.50 deraadt 166: <li><font color=#e00000>i386</font>
1.7 deraadt 167: <ul>
168: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
169: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
170: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
171: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
172: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
1.24 mickey 173: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
1.8 deraadt 174: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
1.24 mickey 175: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
1.8 deraadt 176: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
177: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
178: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
179: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
1.21 deraadt 180: <li>A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
181: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
182: problems. Read the document, please.
1.7 deraadt 183: </ul>
1.11 millert 184: <br>
1.50 deraadt 185: <li><font color=#e00000>Amiga</font>
1.6 grr 186: <ul>
1.4 niklas 187: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
188: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
189: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
190: user mode and do:
1.5 todd 191: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
1.4 niklas 192: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
193: </pre>
1.6 grr 194: </ul>
1.50 deraadt 195: <li><font color=#e00000>Sparc</font>
1.6 grr 196: <ul>
1.5 todd 197: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
198: due to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
199: type:
200: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
201: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
202: </pre>
1.6 grr 203: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
204: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
205: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
206: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
207: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
208: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
209: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
210: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
211: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
212: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
213: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
214: </pre>
1.19 graichen 215: <li>The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
216: and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
217: then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
218: following sequence of commands before starting the install
219: script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
220: booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
221: the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
222: prompt:
223: if you install from CD-ROM do the following:
224: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
225: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
226: wq
227: <b>#</b>
228: </pre>
229: ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
230: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
231: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
232: wq
233: <b>#</b>
234: </pre>
235: The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
236: installing from from CD-ROM)
237: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
238: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
239: wq
240: <b>#</b>
241: </pre>
1.6 grr 242: </ul>
1.50 deraadt 243: <li><font color=#e00000>Pmax</font>
1.9 graichen 244: <ul>
1.10 millert 245: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
1.9 graichen 246: errors like:
247: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
248: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
249: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
250: </pre>
251: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
252: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
253: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
254: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
255: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
256: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
257: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
258: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
259: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
260: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
261: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
262: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
263: </pre>
264: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
265: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
266: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
267: </ul>
1.18 deraadt 268: <p>
1.50 deraadt 269: <li><font color=#e00000>Mac68k</font>
1.17 deraadt 270: <ul>
1.20 gene 271: <li>The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such as "file system read-only" on bootup.
272: 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 273: <pre>
1.18 deraadt 274: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
275: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
276: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
1.20 gene 277: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
1.18 deraadt 278: w
279: q
1.17 deraadt 280: </pre>
1.20 gene 281: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
282: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
283: (read-only). In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
284: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
1.17 deraadt 285: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
286: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
1.20 gene 287:
1.17 deraadt 288: <li>The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
1.20 gene 289: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
290: be tar'ed and gzip'ed. The kernel was not shipped that way. Therefore, you
291: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
1.17 deraadt 292: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
293: <pre>
1.20 gene 294: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
295: </pre>
296: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
1.23 gene 297: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
1.20 gene 298: wherever you have placed the kernel. If possible, it is easiest to drag the
1.23 gene 299: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
300: command without leading colon(s) like:
1.20 gene 301: <pre>
1.23 gene 302: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
1.17 deraadt 303: </pre>
1.20 gene 304: Good luck.
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