cannot "chroot" during installation

[nocturna_gr]

"chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash"
-->chroot: cannot run command "/bin/bash": No such file or directory

However, it does exist, but i' ve also tried entering the path of the "bash" command, which exists in the LiveCD and there was the same problem. What am i doing wrong?

[TNorthover]

Make sure you're checking the correct bash. Specifically, it should be /mnt/gentoo/bin/bash. Also, try "chmod +x /mnt/gentoo/bin/bash" as this could be caused by the bash file not being labelled executable (for some obscure reason or other).

You shouldn't be able to enter the one that lives on the livecd because it's all calculated from within the chroot. So the livecd effectively won't exist (unless you did some weird mounting thing, but you'd definitely know about it if you had).

[cocozz]

Did u mount your partitions ?

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc

After that chroot...it should works

[malv]

This could happen if the code you want to execute after your chroot was compiled for a different cpu architecture or optimization.

[nocturna_gr]

When i wrote, that "bash" existed, i meant "/bin/bash". But as i understand, what we need hear is the /mnt/gentoo/bin/bash, which doesn't exist. In fact, the whole /mnt/gentoo/bin directory doesn't exist, although i've mounted everything right (i think)... Iretyped cocozz's commands and "mtab" showed that everything had been already mounted. I also don't know if this has to do anything , but the partition i've mounted as /mnt/gentoo is a logical one.
What is wrong?

[TNorthover]

It sounds like you may not have unpacked the stage tarball properly. Make sure you've got things mounted as cocozz says, then look at section 5 of the install guide again. Briefly, you need to get a stage tarball (the various merits of each are discussed in the document) and do:

[HaszeGoort]

I do have the same problem like nocturna_gr (had).

I exactly followed the handbook and unfortunaly have no idea what is wrong..

I'm using Knoppix 3.6 as LiveCD and try to get gentoo installed.

"stage2-athlon-xp-2004.2.tar.bz2" is the name of the stage file i downloaded - which results in 131MB after unpacking it and then 733MB after the (alternative command cause of knoppix install) mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc

using mount =>
root@ttyp0[gentoo]# mount
/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/scd0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro)
/ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,size=405392k)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0666)
automount(pid533) on /mnt/auto type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=533,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/hda5 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000)
/dev/hda3 on /mnt/gentoo type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/gentoo/boot type ext2 (rw)
/proc on /mnt/gentoo/proc type none (rw,bind)


is ok isn't it?

and then BUUUM
root@ttyp0[gentoo]# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

second line translates into (using german knoppix):
-->chroot: cannot run command "/bin/bash": No such file or directory

after erasing the data on hda3 (trying non alternative command this time...)
and unpacking the .gz again => 131MB on hda3 then:

root@ttyp0[gentoo]# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
root@ttyp0[gentoo]# mount
/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/scd0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro)
/ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,size=405392k)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0666)
automount(pid533) on /mnt/auto type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=533,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/hda5 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000)
/dev/hda3 on /mnt/gentoo type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/gentoo/boot type ext2 (rw)
none on /mnt/gentoo/proc type proc (rw)

results in 733 MB on hda3

seems ok for me aswell :/

k lets chroot again:
root@ttyp0[gentoo]# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

second line translates into (using german knoppix):
-->chroot: cannot run command "/bin/bash": No such file or directory

(yes the directory file:/mnt/gentoo/bin/ and in sich directory there is a bash file)

I hope i missed something simple :/ and i hope you guys can help me

Regards

[chunderbunny]

I had this problem ith the latest Damn Small Linux disk (0.81), in the end I had to just downgrade to the 0.72 version instead, and that worked fine.