On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 14:05 -0400, John wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have netbsd 1.6.2 on my beige g3. I also have a umax c500 running linux
> with a 2.2.20 kernel. I've recently compiled a static povray binary on the
> linux machine and wanted to see if it would run, with linux emulation,
> on the netbsd machine. Unfortunately I get a "FATAL: kernel too old" error
> message upon launching the binary, which doesn't make any sense because 
> isn't the netbsd 1.6.2 kernel able to emulate a linux 2.2.x kernel? Any 
> idea on how to solve this? 

Try setting the sysctl's emul.linux.kern.osrelease variable.  In my
3.0_BETA system, it holds the 2.4.18 value, but I think it can be
manually changed.

Cheers,

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