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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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On Sat, Aug 30, 1997 at 07:54:59PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> In reply to Christoph Kukulies who wrote:
> > 
> > I have some linux binary which used to work und earlier versions
> > of FreeBSD and now it doesn' work anymore. 
> > Since I wasn;t sure whether this has been a linux or FreeBSD
> > binary I brandelfed it to FreeBSD first and got:
> > 
> > toots# pawX11
> > ELF interpreter /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found
> > Abort     
> > toots# brandelf pawX11
> > File 'pawX11' is of brand 'FreeBSD'.
> > toots# brandelf -t Linux pawX11
> > toots# brandelf pawX11
> > File 'pawX11' is of brand 'Linux'.
> > toots# pawX11
> > ELF binary type not known
> > Abort
> > toots#                                            
> 
> Have you loaded the linuxulator ??

Well, I thought it was loaded since I had linux_enable="YES"
in /etc/rc.conf but looking if it's really there modstat gave
me no loaded lkms.

After explicitly loading it manually (linux), the binary
works again.

Hmm. Gotta look if perhaps my /etc/rc is outdated.
Thanks.


> 
> > Can FreeBSD run a.out linux binaries (pre linux 2.0) as well?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
>                 Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
> ..

-- 
--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de