[gentoo-user] Newbie: Install process @ chroot

[gentoo-user] Newbie: Install process @ chroot

[Subba Rao]

Hello,

This is my first installation of Gentoo.  I am at the
section 6.a in the installation manual for 2005.1
Handbook.  I started the installation yesterday (upto
chapter 5.e) and left it since it was quite confusing
to get the system started/installed.

Today, when I tried to do chrooting I got the
following message.

livecd / # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file
or directory

livecd / # ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 680316 Jul 22 18:23 /bin/bash

livecd / # file /bin/bash
/bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically
linked (uses shared libs), stripped
[subbarao@localhost ~]$

I cannot figure out why it is saying that there is no
'bash' file.  Can someone please explain what steps I
am missing?

Thank you in advance.

Subba Rao
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Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie: Install process @ chroot

[Michael Kjorling]

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On 2005-10-07 04:19 -0700, castellan2004-member@yahoo.com wrote:
> livecd / # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
> chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory
> 
> livecd / # ls -l /bin/bash
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 680316 Jul 22 18:23 /bin/bash

This sounds to me like you did not unpack the stage tarball, or it was
only partially unpacked.

The `chroot' command will change the root directory to `/mnt/gentoo',
then try to execute /bin/bash from within that new environment. So the
file you need to make sure is in place from outside the chroot is
/mnt/gentoo/bin/bash. Try unpacking the stage tarball again (step 5 b
in the handbook) and see if it helps.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie: Install process @ chroot

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 11:46:32 +0000, Michael Kjorling wrote:

> This sounds to me like you did not unpack the stage tarball, or it was
> only partially unpacked.

Or you did not mount the Gentoo root partition on /mnt/gentoo.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie: Install process @ chroot

[John Jolet]

On Friday 07 October 2005 06:19, Subba Rao wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is my first installation of Gentoo.  I am at the
> section 6.a in the installation manual for 2005.1
> Handbook.  I started the installation yesterday (upto
> chapter 5.e) and left it since it was quite confusing
> to get the system started/installed.
>
> Today, when I tried to do chrooting I got the
> following message.
>
> livecd / # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
> chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file
> or directory
is there a /mnt/gentoo/bin/bash?  that's really what it's looking for
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