chroot not working

[brucebertrand]

anyone ever have chroot tell you that /bin/bash doesn't exist?

[yabbadabbadont]

/foo should be the root of the chroot filesystem. /bin/bash that the chroot command is complaining about missing should be at /foo/bin/bash. If you are trying to install gentoo, then you need to read the installation manual more closely. If not, then read up on chroot. If /foo/bin/bash is there, then I'm afraid I'm not sure what is going on. In that case, please post the output of "mount" and "df".

Edit: By the way, I just reread this post and it sounded a little snippy. I didn't intend it that way. Sorry.
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[brucebertrand]

First off, I thought the entire purpose of chroot was to run a process on your current root, but make it believe it exists in the new root.
In other words, /foo/bin/bash should not need to exist, because you're running /bin/bash and its spawing with /foo as its root.

Still, I tried your suggestion and copied /bin/bash to /foo/bin/bash. No effect.

As requested here's my output from mount and df

[yabbadabbadont]

Perhaps this will help: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Special:Search?search=chroot&go=Go
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[brucebertrand]

missing the required libraries in the new root.
Thanks.