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Masoud_Arch

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Registered: 2025-10-31

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arch-chroot /mnt problem

Everything is correct, partitioning, formatting, installation, fstab is correct, but when I enter arch-chroot /mnt, 1. [root@archiso /] 2. ls /mnt is empty. Where is the problem?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,247

Re: arch-chroot /mnt problem

You didn't pacstrap the new system to it.

Edit: Wait, you wrote things out weird, I didn't understand. /mnt in the new system should be empty, the previous /mnt is now /, that's the point of chroot.

Last edited by Scimmia (2025-10-31 12:20:24)

Masoud_Arch

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Registered: 2025-10-31

Posts: 2

Re: arch-chroot /mnt problem

You didn't pacstrap the new system to it.

Edit: Wait, you wrote things out weird, I didn't understand. /mnt in the new system should be empty, the previous /mnt is now /, that's the point of chroot.

I did pacstrap.

I type the command arch-chroot /mnt and after the command, the address should have changed from root@archiso to root@archlinux. But it doesn't

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 70,964

Re: arch-chroot /mnt problem

the address should have changed from root@archiso to root@archlinux

Says who?

sudo systemd-detect-virt -r && echo "you are chrooted"

Last edited by seth (2025-10-31 15:57:16)

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