chroot Exec Format Error [resolved]

falieson · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 13

All right, here is the situation. I am booted from the knoppix 3.4 CD because it has the 2.6.X kernel which easily sees my SATA drives and everything else awesome about my brandnew Abit 64bit cpu mobo. Everything runs smooth on the gentoo install guide up until chrooting /mnt/gentoo .

root@ttyp1[gentoo]# chroot /mnt/gentoo/ /bin/bash
chroot: /bin/bash: Exec format error

WTF? Lol, any and all help is appreciated!

madmango · Guru Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 507 Location: PA, USA

Did you untar the right tarball? I mean, the right stagefile?

Also, I think there might be some issues if the knoppix cd uses a 32-bit kernel and you used a 64-bit tarball.
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falieson · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 13

ttp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/releases/amd64/2004.0/stages/stage1-amd64-20040223.tar.bz2

I used and the commanmd to untar I used was:

falieson · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 13

I hae treid 2004.1/stage1... as well

falieson · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 13

bysin suggested I use a universal stage, such as: http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.0/stages/x86/stage1-x86-20040218.tar.bz2

to solve my dilemna, and it worked.

On with the install!

kallamej · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:10 am Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo. Please post any follow ups in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=7548
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