John Jolet wrote: > > > > On 2/22/06 5:03 PM, "Bo Andresen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I have just purchased a new computer with a AMD Semphron 2800+ 64 bit >> processor. I am installing it following the gentoo handbook of the amd64 >> architecture - only I am using the x86 minimal livecd (2005-r1) and the >> stage3-amd64-2005.1-r1.tar.bz2 tarball. Shouldn that be a problem? >> >> When I get to step 6a (chrooting) >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=6#doc_cha >> p1 >> I get the following error: >> >> livecd gentoo # chroot /mnt/gentoo bin/bash >> chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error > I've seen that when chrooting into 64-bit environment from a 32-bit > kernel. > You cannot boot from the x86 minimal and use an amd64 stage file. You > need the amd64 boot cd. >> >> I did use LVM2 for partitioning but other than that I have followed the >> handbook very throughly. I hope someone has a solution. Please feel free >> to ask for any information that may be helpful. > At the same time when you run a command you need to type the path to it correctly. In this case the path is preceded by /, as in: ============================ /bin/bash ============================
You really need to double check commands before you hit return as it is easy to miss a character and the whole sequence goes to pot. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
