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From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To: Ted Cohn <ted@webcrawler.com>
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Subject: Re: More Linux ELF probs w/2.2-GAMMA
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> Hi,
> 
> I installed 2.2-GAMMA and turned on appropriate linux emulation and still canot execute a certain ELF binary from Solid Technology:
> 
> % ./solinst
> ELF binary type not known
> Abort
> 
> % file ./solinst
> ./solinst: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
> 
> % modstat
> Type    Id    Off Loadaddr Size Info      Rev Module Name
> EXEC     0      4 f441b000 001c f4421010    1 linux_mod
> 
> And I recompiled the kernel with options COMPAT_LINUX and LINUX too...

I don't believe you need these. Did you run "linux" before trying to run
this? This is what I do you I get the same error on any ELF. You can
probably put that in rc.local, but I don't since I rarely use Linux
emulation.