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

["Kushal Kumaran" <kushal.kumaran+debian@gmail.com>]

On 4/7/07, Joe Hart <j.hart@orange.nl> wrote:
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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?
> >
> >
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> 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.
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> chroot /mnt/debinst/bin/bash.  Does that not work?

The first arg to chroot is the directory you want to change root to.
That is /mnt/debinst here.  The second arg is the program you want to
run in the chroot.  That is /bin/bash.  The space is correct and
needed.
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Kushal