Subject: 4.3BSD-Reno compatibility lost?
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: None <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/06/2000 11:44:16
Hi.
Yesterday I unsuccessfully tried to install 4.3BSD-Reno on a MVII. I
could not get the beast to boot from the install tape... (But this is an
other story.) Due to this circumstance I tried some odd things like
booting the 4.3BSD-Reno kernel with the NetBSD booter, booting the
NetBSD kernel with "-a" and give it a 4.3BSD-Reno root-fs, ... All this
did not work.
Doing this I noticed that it is not possible to run the old 4.3BSD-Reno
binarys even with COMPAT_43 in the kernelconfig. I tested it with 1.4X
and 1.4.2. I get errors like
bash: ./bin/ls: cannot execute binary file
BTW: file(1) says
./bin/ls: 386 demand paged pure executable
So I thik we can remove COMPAT_43 from the standard GENERIC config or
we have to fix it.
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tschüß,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/