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When booting, the message “The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.” Why?

April 26, 2017appear booting executable file loaded message

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When booting, the message “The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.” Why?

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On systems that have the older OpenBoot version 2.3, and are not set up to use PROLL, you will get this message when attempting to boot up a kernel image that is not in AOUT format. Be sure to run elftoaout on your kernel image, as described in the “Kernel Build” chapter.