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Re: Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error



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Matt Miller wrote:
> I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, and I want to
> build an etch i386 system on it.  I partitioned the drive, and used
> debootstrap to lay down a minimal i386 system on the drive.  The problem
> is that I want to chroot into that system to do some more stuff, but the
> chroot fails:
> 
> mmiller@xpc1:~$ sudo chroot /mnt/debinst /bin/bash chroot: cannot run
> command `/bin/bash': Exec format error
> 
> So, what's next?  Don't I need to be able to get into that i386 system
> and install a kernel and do some other things?  Can this type of cross-
> system build be done?
> 
> 

Maybe my newbieness is showing here, or I have true insight, don't know
which, but it looks to me as there is an extra space in there.

chroot /mnt/debinst/bin/bash.  Does that not work?

Joe

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