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2003 by The FreeBSD Documentation Project</p>
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<div class="LEGALNOTICE">
<a id="TRADEMARKS" name="TRADEMARKS"></a>
<p>FreeBSD is a registered trademark of Wind River
Systems, Inc. This is expected to change soon.</p>
<p>Intel, Celeron, EtherExpress, i386, i486, Itanium,
Pentium, and Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United
States and other countries.</p>
<p>Sparc, Sparc64, SPARCEngine, and UltraSPARC are
trademarks of SPARC International, Inc in the United
States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC
trademarks are based upon architecture developed by Sun
Microsystems, Inc.</p>
<p>Many of the designations used by manufacturers and
sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as
trademarks. Where those designations appear in this
document, and the FreeBSD Project was aware of the
trademark claim, the designations have been followed by
the ``&trade;'' or the ``&reg;'' symbol.</p>
</div>
<hr />
</div>
<blockquote class="ABSTRACT">
<div class="ABSTRACT">
<a id="AEN12" name="AEN12"></a>
<a id="AEN19" name="AEN19"></a>
<p>This document lists errata items for FreeBSD
5.1-RELEASE, containing significant information
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found in security advisory <a
href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:10.ibcs2.asc"
target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:10</a>.</p>
<p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSH</b> contains a bug in its
buffer management code that could potentially cause it to
crash. This bug has been fixed via a vendor-supplied patch
on the 5-CURRENT development branch and the 5.1-RELEASE
security fix branch. For more details, refer to security
advisory <a
href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:12.openssh.asc"
target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:12</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT1">
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class="REFENTRYTITLE">raid</span>(4)</span></a> is
non-functional for this release.</p>
<p>ACPI seems to make some i386 machines unstable. Turning
off ACPI support may help solve some of these problems; see
an item in <a href="#LATE-NEWS">Section 4</a>.</p>
<p>ACPI seems to make some <span
class="TRADEMARK">i386</span>&#8482; machines unstable.
Turning off ACPI support may help solve some of these
problems; see an item in <a href="#LATE-NEWS">Section
4</a>.</p>
<p>An integer overflow could cause kernel panics on
PAE-using machines with certain memory sizes. This bug has
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> should work
correctly on strict-alignment 64-bit architectures such as
alpha and sparc64.</p>
alpha and <span class="TRADEMARK">Sparc64</span>&reg;.</p>
<p>The release notes should have stated that the <tt
class="FILENAME">libthr</tt> library is built by default
for the i386 platform.</p>
for the <span class="TRADEMARK">i386</span> platform.</p>
<p>FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE includes some new boot loader
scripts designed to make booting FreeBSD with different
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boot loader scripts (thus, <tt
class="FILENAME">/boot/loader.conf</tt> and other existing
loader configuration files still apply). They are only
installed by default for new binary installs on i386
machines. The new scripts present a boot-time menu that
controls how FreeBSD is booted, and include options to turn
off ACPI, a ``safe mode'' boot, single-user booting, and
verbose booting. ``Safe mode'' booting can be particularly
useful when compatibility with a system's hardware is
uncertain, and sets the following kernel tunable
variables:</p>
installed by default for new binary installs on <span
class="TRADEMARK">i386</span> machines. The new scripts
present a boot-time menu that controls how FreeBSD is
booted, and include options to turn off ACPI, a ``safe
mode'' boot, single-user booting, and verbose booting.
``Safe mode'' booting can be particularly useful when
compatibility with a system's hardware is uncertain, and
sets the following kernel tunable variables:</p>
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 # disable ACPI (i386 only)
hw.ata.ata_dma=0 # disable IDE DMA
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hw.eisa_slots=0 # disable probing for EISA devices
</pre>
<p>For new installs on i386 architecture machines, <a
<p>For new installs on <span class="TRADEMARK">i386</span>
architecture machines, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+5.1-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> will