{"id":9250,"date":"2008-02-24T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/openbsd-problem-fixing\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:45","slug":"openbsd-problem-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/openbsd-problem-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenBSD Problem Fixing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back on the 13<sup>th<\/sup> I <a href=\"http:\/\/c0nsumer.livejournal.com\/1128168.html\">posted about a quirk in OpenBSD\/macppc 4.2 which kept the serial console from working after first boot<\/a>. This was submitted as <a href=\"http:\/\/cvs.openbsd.org\/cgi-bin\/query-pr-wrapper?full=yes&#038;numbers=5732\">PR 5732<\/a> and I listed a workaround <a href=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki\/Trashwall#Operating_System\">here in the Trashwall article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Late last night after going to bed I included on a message from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theo_de_Raadt\">Theo de Raadt<\/a> asking for confirmation from another developer that it is fixed in <tt>-current<\/tt>. Poking around <a href=\"\">cvsweb<\/a> brought me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openbsd.org\/cgi-bin\/cvsweb\/src\/distrib\/miniroot\/install.sub.diff?r1=1.422&#038;r2=1.423&#038;f=h\">this change to <tt>\/src\/distrib\/miniroot\/install.sub<\/tt> which appears to sort it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very happy about this, and I&#8217;ll have to be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openbsd.org\/orders.html\">buy the 4.3 CD release when it becomes available<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on the 13th I posted about a quirk in OpenBSD\/macppc 4.2 which kept the serial console from working after first boot. This was submitted as PR 5732 and I listed a workaround here in the Trashwall article. Late last night after going to bed I included on a message from Theo de Raadt asking\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12379,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions\/12379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}