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| 1<!-- 2 FreeBSD errata document. Unlike some of the other RELNOTESng 3 files, this file should remain as a single SGML file, so that 4 the dollar FreeBSD dollar header has a meaningful modification 5 time. This file is all but useless without a datestamp on it, 6 so we'll take some extra care to make sure it has one. 7 8 (If we didn't do this, then the file with the datestamp might 9 not be the one that received the last change in the document.) 10 11--> 12 13<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V4.1-Based Extension//EN" [ 14<!ENTITY % man PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Manual Page Entities//EN"> 15%man; 16<!ENTITY % authors PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Author Entities//EN"> 17%authors; 18<!ENTITY % mlists PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Mailing List Entities//EN"> 19%mlists; | 1<!-- 2 FreeBSD errata document. Unlike some of the other RELNOTESng 3 files, this file should remain as a single SGML file, so that 4 the dollar FreeBSD dollar header has a meaningful modification 5 time. This file is all but useless without a datestamp on it, 6 so we'll take some extra care to make sure it has one. 7 8 (If we didn't do this, then the file with the datestamp might 9 not be the one that received the last change in the document.) 10 11--> 12 13<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V4.1-Based Extension//EN" [ 14<!ENTITY % man PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Manual Page Entities//EN"> 15%man; 16<!ENTITY % authors PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Author Entities//EN"> 17%authors; 18<!ENTITY % mlists PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Mailing List Entities//EN"> 19%mlists; |
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| 20<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN"> 21%release; 22]> 23 24<article> 25 <articleinfo> 26 <title>&os; 27<![ %release.type.snapshot [ 28 &release.prev; 29]]> 30<![ %release.type.release [ 31 &release.current; 32]]> 33 Errata</title> 34 35 <corpauthor> 36 The &os; Project 37 </corpauthor> 38 | 22<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN"> 23%release; 24]> 25 26<article> 27 <articleinfo> 28 <title>&os; 29<![ %release.type.snapshot [ 30 &release.prev; 31]]> 32<![ %release.type.release [ 33 &release.current; 34]]> 35 Errata</title> 36 37 <corpauthor> 38 The &os; Project 39 </corpauthor> 40 |
| 39 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml 118789 2003-08-11 15:54:29Z bmah $</pubdate> | 41 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml 119884 2003-09-08 14:53:02Z simon $</pubdate> |
| 40 41 <copyright> 42 <year>2000</year> 43 <year>2001</year> 44 <year>2002</year> 45 <year>2003</year> 46 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder> 47 </copyright> | 42 43 <copyright> 44 <year>2000</year> 45 <year>2001</year> 46 <year>2002</year> 47 <year>2003</year> 48 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder> 49 </copyright> |
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| 48 </articleinfo> 49 50 <abstract> 51 <para>This document lists errata items for &os; 52<![ %release.type.snapshot [ 53 &release.prev;, 54]]> 55<![ %release.type.release [ --- 94 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 150<![ %release.type.release [ 151 <para>No open issues.</para> 152]]> 153 154<![ %release.type.snapshot [ 155 <para>The RAIDframe disk driver described in &man.raid.4; is 156 non-functional for this release.</para> 157 | 57 </articleinfo> 58 59 <abstract> 60 <para>This document lists errata items for &os; 61<![ %release.type.snapshot [ 62 &release.prev;, 63]]> 64<![ %release.type.release [ --- 94 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 159<![ %release.type.release [ 160 <para>No open issues.</para> 161]]> 162 163<![ %release.type.snapshot [ 164 <para>The RAIDframe disk driver described in &man.raid.4; is 165 non-functional for this release.</para> 166 |
| 158 <para>ACPI seems to make some i386 machines unstable. Turning off | 167 <para>ACPI seems to make some &i386; machines unstable. Turning off |
| 159 ACPI support may help solve some of these problems; see an item 160 in <xref linkend="late-news">.</para> 161 162 <para>An integer overflow could cause kernel panics on PAE-using 163 machines with certain memory sizes. This bug has been corrected 164 on both the <literal>RELENG_5_1</literal> and 165 <literal>HEAD</literal> branches. A workaround for this problem 166 is to remove some memory, update the system in question, and --- 13 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 180 <title>Late-Breaking News</title> 181 182<![ %release.type.release [ 183 <para>No news.</para> 184]]> 185 186<![ %release.type.snapshot [ 187 <para>&man.ipfw.4; should work correctly on strict-alignment | 168 ACPI support may help solve some of these problems; see an item 169 in <xref linkend="late-news">.</para> 170 171 <para>An integer overflow could cause kernel panics on PAE-using 172 machines with certain memory sizes. This bug has been corrected 173 on both the <literal>RELENG_5_1</literal> and 174 <literal>HEAD</literal> branches. A workaround for this problem 175 is to remove some memory, update the system in question, and --- 13 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 189 <title>Late-Breaking News</title> 190 191<![ %release.type.release [ 192 <para>No news.</para> 193]]> 194 195<![ %release.type.snapshot [ 196 <para>&man.ipfw.4; should work correctly on strict-alignment |
| 188 64-bit architectures such as alpha and sparc64.</para> | 197 64-bit architectures such as alpha and &sparc64;.</para> |
| 189 190 <para>The release notes should have stated that the 191 <filename>libthr</filename> library is built by default for the | 198 199 <para>The release notes should have stated that the 200 <filename>libthr</filename> library is built by default for the |
| 192 i386 platform.</para> | 201 &i386; platform.</para> |
| 193 194 <para>&os; &release.prev; includes some new boot loader scripts 195 designed to make booting &os; with different options easier. 196 This may help diagnose bootstrapping problems. These scripts 197 build on the existing Forth-based boot loader scripts (thus, 198 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> and other existing loader 199 configuration files still apply). They are only installed by | 202 203 <para>&os; &release.prev; includes some new boot loader scripts 204 designed to make booting &os; with different options easier. 205 This may help diagnose bootstrapping problems. These scripts 206 build on the existing Forth-based boot loader scripts (thus, 207 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> and other existing loader 208 configuration files still apply). They are only installed by |
| 200 default for new binary installs on i386 machines. The new | 209 default for new binary installs on &i386; machines. The new |
| 201 scripts present a boot-time menu that controls how &os; is 202 booted, and include options to turn off ACPI, a <quote>safe 203 mode</quote> boot, single-user booting, and verbose booting. 204 <quote>Safe mode</quote> booting can be particularly useful when 205 compatibility with a system's hardware is uncertain, and sets 206 the following kernel tunable variables:</para> 207 208 <programlisting>hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 # disable ACPI (i386 only) 209hw.ata.ata_dma=0 # disable IDE DMA 210hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 # disable ATAPI/IDE DMA 211hw.ata.wc=0 # disable IDE disk write cache 212hw.eisa_slots=0 # disable probing for EISA devices</programlisting> 213 | 210 scripts present a boot-time menu that controls how &os; is 211 booted, and include options to turn off ACPI, a <quote>safe 212 mode</quote> boot, single-user booting, and verbose booting. 213 <quote>Safe mode</quote> booting can be particularly useful when 214 compatibility with a system's hardware is uncertain, and sets 215 the following kernel tunable variables:</para> 216 217 <programlisting>hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 # disable ACPI (i386 only) 218hw.ata.ata_dma=0 # disable IDE DMA 219hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 # disable ATAPI/IDE DMA 220hw.ata.wc=0 # disable IDE disk write cache 221hw.eisa_slots=0 # disable probing for EISA devices</programlisting> 222 |
| 214 <para>For new installs on i386 architecture machines, | 223 <para>For new installs on &i386; architecture machines, |
| 215 &man.sysinstall.8; will try to determine if ACPI was disabled 216 via the new boot loader scripts mentioned above, and if so, 217 ask if this change should be made permanent.</para> 218 219 <para>The release notes should have mentioned that work on the 220 following features was sponsored by the Defense Advanced 221 Research Projects Agency (DARPA): OpenPAM, NSS support, PAE 222 support, various MAC framework updates, the GEOM disk geometry 223 system.</para> 224 225]]> 226 227 </sect1> 228 229</article> | 224 &man.sysinstall.8; will try to determine if ACPI was disabled 225 via the new boot loader scripts mentioned above, and if so, 226 ask if this change should be made permanent.</para> 227 228 <para>The release notes should have mentioned that work on the 229 following features was sponsored by the Defense Advanced 230 Research Projects Agency (DARPA): OpenPAM, NSS support, PAE 231 support, various MAC framework updates, the GEOM disk geometry 232 system.</para> 233 234]]> 235 236 </sect1> 237 238</article> |