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From: Paul Gardner-Stephen <paul@infoeng.flinders.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: OSF binary emulation problem 
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> > I am having problems running OSF 4.0 binaries under FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on
> > an alpha personal workstation 500au:
> 
> Its a bug in 5.0 that only bites SMP kernels (GENERIC is SMP on
> alpha).  This was just fixed Sat. in -currrent.  See the freebsd-alpha
> archives for the patch.  Or rebuild a kernel without 'options SMP', or
> upgrade to -current.

Thanks, I'll start by compiling without SMP and let you know how I go.

Paul.