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                     17: This is the OpenBSD 2.1 release errata & patch list:
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        !            21: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
        !            22: <a href=errata.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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                     26: <ul>
                     27: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
                     28: <ul>
                     29: <li>One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
                     30:        when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
                     31:        To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
                     32:        starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
                     33:        kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
                     34:        is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
                     35: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
                     36: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
                     37: wq
                     38: <b>#</b>
                     39: </pre>
                     40:        For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
                     41:        (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
                     42:        prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command.  After
                     43:        that you can restart the install by:
                     44: <pre><b>#</b> install
                     45: </pre>
                     46: </ul>
                     47: <br>
                     48: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Alpha</font></h3>
                     49: <ul>
                     50: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
                     51:        must use the floppy install method.  This is not significantly
                     52:        harder..
                     53: </ul>
                     54: <br>
                     55: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
                     56: <ul>
                     57: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
                     58: as a MBR.  The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
                     59: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
                     60: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
                     61: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
                     62: non-zero offset.  For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
                     63: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
                     64: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
                     65: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
                     66: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
                     67: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
                     68: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
                     69: <li>A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
                     70: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
                     71: problems.  Read the document, please.
                     72: </ul>
                     73: <br>
                     74: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Amiga</font></h3>
                     75: <ul>
                     76: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
                     77:        multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt.  This is due to
                     78:        a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script.  To fix, enter single
                     79:        user mode and do:
                     80: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
                     81: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
                     82: </pre>
                     83: </ul>
                     84: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Sparc</font></h3>
                     85: <ul>
                     86: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
                     87:        due to X11R6.3's default config file contents.  To fix, su and
                     88:        type:
                     89: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
                     90: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
                     91: </pre>
                     92: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
                     93:        "dumb" in response to the terminal type query.  As a work-around
                     94:        first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
                     95:        again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
                     96: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
                     97:        may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
                     98:        to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks.  If this occurs
                     99:        create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
                    100: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
                    101: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
                    102: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
                    103: </pre>
                    104: <li>The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
                    105:        and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
                    106:        then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
                    107:        following sequence of commands before starting the install
                    108:        script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
                    109:        booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
                    110:        the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
                    111:        prompt:
                    112:         if you install from CD-ROM do the following:
                    113: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
                    114: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
                    115: wq
                    116: <b>#</b>
                    117: </pre>
                    118:         ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
                    119: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
                    120: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
                    121: wq
                    122: <b>#</b>
                    123: </pre>
                    124:         The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
                    125:        installing from from CD-ROM)
                    126: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
                    127: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
                    128: wq
                    129: <b>#</b>
                    130: </pre>
                    131: </ul>
                    132: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Pmax</font></h3>
                    133: <ul>
                    134: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
                    135: errors like:
                    136: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
                    137: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
                    138: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
                    139: </pre>
                    140: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
                    141: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
                    142: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
                    143: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
                    144: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
                    145: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
                    146: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
                    147: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
                    148: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
                    149: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
                    150: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
                    151: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
                    152: </pre>
                    153: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
                    154: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
                    155: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
                    156: </ul>
                    157: <p>
                    158: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Mac68k</font></h3>
                    159: <ul>
                    160: <li>The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such as "file system read-only" on bootup.
                    161: To correct, boot to single-user mode (by clicking that checkbox in the Booter's Booting:Options dialog) and do the following:
                    162: <pre>
                    163: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
                    164: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
                    165: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
                    166: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
                    167: w
                    168: q
                    169: </pre>
                    170: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
                    171: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
                    172: (read-only).  In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
                    173: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
                    174: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
                    175: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
                    176:
                    177: <li>The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
                    178: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
                    179: be tar'ed and gzip'ed.  The kernel was not shipped that way.  Therefore, you
                    180: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
                    181: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
                    182: <pre>
                    183: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
                    184: </pre>
                    185: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
                    186: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
                    187: wherever you have placed the kernel.  If possible, it is easiest to drag the
                    188: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
                    189: command without leading colon(s) like:
                    190: <pre>
                    191: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
                    192: </pre>
                    193: Good luck.
                    194: </ul>
                    195: </ul>
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