On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:10, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Zachary Uram wrote: > > in order to get it working i tried to mount the root partition : > > # mount /dev/sda5 /tmp/mnt > > > > that is fine, but when i run chroot i get weird error: > > # chroot /tmp/mnt > > # chroot: cannot execute command '/bin/bash' : Exec format error > > Is it possible that your live cd mounts /tmp with the noexec flag? > Try mounting it at a different location such as /mnt. > > Is it possible that you have several partitions and /usr/lib or /lib > is on one of them? In which case you will need to mount those > partitions too. Check your mounted /mnt/etc/fstab to see what you > normally mount and mount those up too. > > I know you are already looking for this but verify that your running > kernel (with uname -a) matches your executable (with file /bin/bash). > > If you boot a cdrom that uses grub as the bootloader then you can stop > the process there and redirect grub to the disk installation. This is > more complicated but I think you get the idea. Unfortunately most use > syslinux but there are some that use grub but I don't have a pointer > to one off the top of my head. > > Bob > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkw3s1QACgkQ0pRcO8E2ULZ9kACfZpL/pjAucK3edUjmVhybpqaT > lpkAn09MBHAz8lv5Fk3mCbkBl7Qm8Zg0 > =tDZO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Since you are trying to write the grub mbr, also mount the following before doing chroot assuming that you mounted your root partition at, mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /dev/ /mnt/dev
Go through the fstab of your root partition to see any other essential mount points like /var, /usr are there, then mount them also before doing chroot.
