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Date:      Fri, 3 Dec 1999 11:09:32 -0500
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
To:        "Mark W. Krentel" <krentel@dreamscape.com>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: running linux binaries from ext2fs partition
Message-ID:  <19991203110932.37405@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <199912030648.BAA45536@dreamscape.com>; from Mark W. Krentel on Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:48:08AM -0500
References:  <199912030648.BAA45536@dreamscape.com>

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On Friday,  3 December 1999 at  1:48:08 -0500, Mark W. Krentel wrote:
> Has anyone else tried running linux binaries directly from a local
> ext2fs partition?

Yes.  Works fine for me.

> I tried running linux's /bin/ls, mounted as /mnt/bin/ls in freebsd,
> and I immediately got a kernel panic for "page fault while in kernel
> mode."

That's worth looking at.  Can you give us a stack trace?

> My machine dual boots between Freebsd 3.3-stable (as of Nov 7) and Red
> Hat 6.0.  I have the linux_base-6.0 port installed and the linux.ko
> module installed.  I can run linux's ls by copying it onto a freebsd
> partition, but it panicked on ext2fs.
>
> Is this a known problem, or is it supposed to work?

I don't know of the problem, and I certainly didn't have it myself.

Greg
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