Re: chroot: can't execute command "/bin/bash": No such file or directory

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 5:03 AM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote:
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> [...]
> I've debootstrapped jessie on Ubuntu 14.04 with this command :
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> debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf jessie jessie-armhf http://archive.debian.org/debian
>
> and it worked ok,but when I try to chroot within it :
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> root@marietto-Z87-HD3:/home/marietto/Scrivania/Chromebook/linux-distros# chroot ./jessie-armhf /bin/bash
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> it gives the following error :
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> chroot: can't execute command "/bin/bash": No such file or directory

Omit the interpreter:

    # cd /home/marietto/Scrivania/Chromebook/linux-distros
    # chroot jessie-armhf

Also see https://www.cryptopp.com/wiki/Debian_Chroot#Entering_a_Guest .

I seem to recall SPARC or SPARC64 will give problems. It crashes
immediately in /bin/sh or /bin/bash.

Jeff