From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FC3Px-0007lW-D0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:29:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1MNQXL5004541; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:26:33 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1MNEZsH026525 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:14:36 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 235C518037 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:14:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17997-10-6 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:14:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.51] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA6B18033 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:14:33 -0600 (CST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.1.051004 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:14:54 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error From: John Jolet To: Message-ID: Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error Thread-Index: AcY4BcnnCIYywKP5EdqqtwARJOP61A== In-Reply-To: <200602230003.33868.bo.andresen@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: fcf67b6a-adf1-4580-86bd-435873e5ea4a X-Archives-Hash: 5d33ecc707b16d31591abd9ab4f8ae19 On 2/22/06 5:03 PM, "Bo Andresen" wrote: > Hi > > I have just purchased a new computer with a AMD Semphron 2800+ 64 bit > processor. I am installing it following the gentoo handbook of the amd64 > architecture - only I am using the x86 minimal livecd (2005-r1) and the > stage3-amd64-2005.1-r1.tar.bz2 tarball. Shouldn that be a problem? > > When I get to step 6a (chrooting) > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=6#doc_cha > p1 > I get the following error: > > livecd gentoo # chroot /mnt/gentoo bin/bash > chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error I've seen that when chrooting into 64-bit environment from a 32-bit kernel. You cannot boot from the x86 minimal and use an amd64 stage file. You need the amd64 boot cd. > > I did use LVM2 for partitioning but other than that I have followed the > handbook very throughly. I hope someone has a solution. Please feel free to > ask for any information that may be helpful. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list