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                     19: This is the current OpenBSD 2.1 CD errata list:
                     20: <ul>
1.6       grr        21: <li><strong>Alpha</strong>
                     22: <ul>
1.1       deraadt    23: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
1.3       deraadt    24:        must use the floppy install method.  This is not significantly
                     25:        harder..
1.6       grr        26: </ul>
1.7       deraadt    27: <li><strong>i386</strong>
                     28: <ul>
                     29: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
                     30: as a MBR.  The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
                     31: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
                     32: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
                     33: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
                     34: non-zero offset.  For instance, start OpenBSD at track 64 or so.
1.8       deraadt    35: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
                     36: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:
                     37: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
                     38: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
                     39: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
                     40: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
1.7       deraadt    41: </ul>
1.6       grr        42: <li><strong>Amiga</strong>
                     43: <ul>
1.4       niklas     44: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
                     45:        multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt.  This is due to
                     46:        a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script.  To fix, enter single
                     47:        user mode and do:
1.5       todd       48: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
1.4       niklas     49: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
                     50: </pre>
1.6       grr        51: </ul>
                     52: <li><strong>Sparc</strong>
                     53: <ul>
1.5       todd       54: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
                     55:        due to X11R6.3's default config file contents.  To fix, su and
                     56:        type:
                     57: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
                     58: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
                     59: </pre>
1.6       grr        60: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
                     61:        "dumb" in response to the terminal type query.  As a work-around
                     62:        first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
                     63:        again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
                     64: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
                     65:        may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
                     66:        to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks.  If this occurs
                     67:        create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
                     68: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
                     69: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
                     70: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
                     71: </pre>
                     72: </ul>
1.9     ! graichen   73: <li><strong>Pmax</strong>
        !            74: <ul>
        !            75: <li> Then using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
        !            76: errors like:
        !            77: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
        !            78: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
        !            79: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
        !            80: </pre>
        !            81: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
        !            82: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
        !            83: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
        !            84: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
        !            85: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
        !            86: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
        !            87: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
        !            88: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
        !            89: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
        !            90: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
        !            91: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
        !            92: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
        !            93: </pre>
        !            94: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
        !            95: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
        !            96: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
        !            97: </ul>
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