Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:43:21 +0530 From: "Joseph Koshy" <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> To: "Jim Prettyman" <jimprettyman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running i386 binaries on amd64 Message-ID: <84dead720605112313h51ffd83dm82b895623f4c6e27@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <af7830470605112305i29d5bf39o15098c39835ba943@mail.gmail.com> References: <af7830470605112305i29d5bf39o15098c39835ba943@mail.gmail.com>
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> I have just installed FreeBSD-6.1-R on an athlon64 box, which is my > first ever experience with amd. I was under the impression that the > amd64 machines could run binaries built for the i386, but I'm not > having much luck with the system as it is now. What are the symptoms you see? > Am I trying to do something that can't be done? Or is there some magic > that I need to apply first? You need 'COMPAT_IA32' compiled into the kernel, but this should be part of the default GENERIC kernel. --=20 FreeBSD Developer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
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