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! 17: This is the OpenBSD 2.1 release errata & patch list:
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! 19: <br>
! 20: <ul>
! 21: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
! 22: <ul>
! 23: <li>One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
! 24: when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
! 25: To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
! 26: starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
! 27: kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
! 28: is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
! 29: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
! 30: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
! 31: wq
! 32: <b>#</b>
! 33: </pre>
! 34: For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
! 35: (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
! 36: prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command. After
! 37: that you can restart the install by:
! 38: <pre><b>#</b> install
! 39: </pre>
! 40: </ul>
! 41: <br>
! 42: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Alpha</font></h3>
! 43: <ul>
! 44: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
! 45: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
! 46: harder..
! 47: </ul>
! 48: <br>
! 49: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
! 50: <ul>
! 51: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
! 52: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
! 53: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
! 54: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
! 55: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
! 56: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
! 57: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
! 58: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
! 59: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
! 60: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
! 61: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
! 62: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
! 63: <li>A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
! 64: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
! 65: problems. Read the document, please.
! 66: </ul>
! 67: <br>
! 68: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Amiga</font></h3>
! 69: <ul>
! 70: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
! 71: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
! 72: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
! 73: user mode and do:
! 74: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
! 75: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
! 76: </pre>
! 77: </ul>
! 78: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Sparc</font></h3>
! 79: <ul>
! 80: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
! 81: due to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
! 82: type:
! 83: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
! 84: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
! 85: </pre>
! 86: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
! 87: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
! 88: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
! 89: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
! 90: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
! 91: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
! 92: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
! 93: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
! 94: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
! 95: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
! 96: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
! 97: </pre>
! 98: <li>The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
! 99: and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
! 100: then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
! 101: following sequence of commands before starting the install
! 102: script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
! 103: booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
! 104: the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
! 105: prompt:
! 106: if you install from CD-ROM do the following:
! 107: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
! 108: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
! 109: wq
! 110: <b>#</b>
! 111: </pre>
! 112: ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
! 113: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
! 114: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
! 115: wq
! 116: <b>#</b>
! 117: </pre>
! 118: The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
! 119: installing from from CD-ROM)
! 120: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
! 121: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
! 122: wq
! 123: <b>#</b>
! 124: </pre>
! 125: </ul>
! 126: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Pmax</font></h3>
! 127: <ul>
! 128: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
! 129: errors like:
! 130: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
! 131: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
! 132: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
! 133: </pre>
! 134: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
! 135: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
! 136: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
! 137: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
! 138: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
! 139: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
! 140: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
! 141: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
! 142: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
! 143: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
! 144: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
! 145: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
! 146: </pre>
! 147: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
! 148: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
! 149: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
! 150: </ul>
! 151: <p>
! 152: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Mac68k</font></h3>
! 153: <ul>
! 154: <li>The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such as "file system read-only" on bootup.
! 155: To correct, boot to single-user mode (by clicking that checkbox in the Booter's Booting:Options dialog) and do the following:
! 156: <pre>
! 157: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
! 158: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
! 159: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
! 160: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
! 161: w
! 162: q
! 163: </pre>
! 164: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
! 165: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
! 166: (read-only). In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
! 167: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
! 168: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
! 169: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
! 170:
! 171: <li>The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
! 172: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
! 173: be tar'ed and gzip'ed. The kernel was not shipped that way. Therefore, you
! 174: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
! 175: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
! 176: <pre>
! 177: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
! 178: </pre>
! 179: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
! 180: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
! 181: wherever you have placed the kernel. If possible, it is easiest to drag the
! 182: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
! 183: command without leading colon(s) like:
! 184: <pre>
! 185: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
! 186: </pre>
! 187: Good luck.
! 188: </ul>
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