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Date:      Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:47:06 +0000
From:      Martin Smith <mjs@rakupottery.org.uk>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem install linux base f10
Message-ID:  <4B4F589A.6060304@rakupottery.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <790a9fff1001140937k541dd673pc28381a59861f4f9@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4B4F4BBF.4090600@rakupottery.org.uk> <790a9fff1001140937k541dd673pc28381a59861f4f9@mail.gmail.com>

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Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Martin Smith <mjs@rakupottery.org.uk> wrote:
>> 8.0 stable freshly installed and updated, am trying to install linux base
>> f10 and getting the following error
>> sysctrl: unknown oid 'compat.linux.osrelease'
>> linuxulator is not (kld)loaded, exiting
>> pkg_add: install script returned error status
>>
>> is there some work around for this? cheers
> 
> You need to load the linux kernel module, before installing the
> linux_base-f10 port.
> 
> Just do a 'kldload linux' before installing the port.  Then to have
> the linux module always load at boot, add linux_enable="YES" to
> /etc/rc.conf.

Thanks a lot for that Scot.
-- 
Martin



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