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This is the current OpenBSD 2.1 CD errata list:
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<li><strong>Alpha</strong>
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<li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
	must use the floppy install method.  This is not significantly
	harder..
</ul>
<li><strong>i386</strong>
<ul>
<li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
as a MBR.  The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
non-zero offset.  For instance, start OpenBSD at track 64 or so.
<li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:
MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
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<li><strong>Amiga</strong>
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<li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
	multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt.  This is due to
	a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script.  To fix, enter single
	user mode and do:
<pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
<b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
</pre>
</ul>
<li><strong>Sparc</strong>
<ul>
<li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
	due to X11R6.3's default config file contents.  To fix, su and
	type:
<pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
<b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
</pre>
<li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
	"dumb" in response to the terminal type query.  As a work-around
	first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
	again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
<li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
	may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
	to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks.  If this occurs
	create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
<pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
<b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
<b>#</b> mv newboot boot
</pre>
</ul>
<li><strong>Pmax</strong>
<ul>
<li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
errors like:
<pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
</pre>
this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
<pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
<b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
<b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
<b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
<b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
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Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
</ul>
<li><strong>All platforms</strong>
<ul>
<li> The DNS resolver does not honor the "sortlist" directive described
     in resolv.conf(5).
</ul>
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