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1.1 deraadt 16: <h2><font color=#0000e0>
17: This is the OpenBSD 2.1 release errata & patch list:
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1.2 deraadt 19:
20: <hr>
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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1.1 deraadt 25: <br>
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>
196:
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1.2 deraadt 198: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
199: <a href=errata.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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