livefs "shared object ... not found" errors

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 07/11/11 12:00, Muammer Hamutçu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I 'm trying to use FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201102-powerpc-livefs.iso on
> my 2005 make Apple Mac mini but when I try to use one of most basic
> commands such as "ls", it gives
>
> Code: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.9" not found
> required by "ls"(sometimes "libc.so.9" becomes "libutil.so.9")
>
> error. Those other common Unix commands give error, too:
>
> file --> Code: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libmagic.so.4"
> not found required by "file"uname --> Code: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
> Shared object "libc.so.7" not found required by "uname"However, those
> commands do work:
>
> cd gpart pwd
>
> I have searched the Internet for that kind of errors ("shared object
> ... not found") and found tens of similar search results, but I could
> not catch any solutions.
>
> Do you have any suggestion? Thanks.
>

The livefs images generated with the old release generation code were 
broken due to some bugs in mkisofs generating hybrid images. You'll need 
one of the newer ones instead (which use makefs instead of mkisofs): 
http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-powerpc-20110308.iso.bz2
-Nathan