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ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

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Trying a recovery from a livedisc and chroot fails to run /bin/bash?!?

The title pretty much says it all.

Trying to do a repair on my daughter's laptop, booting from a live image on USB.  It's an old eeepc with only 1 partition, all on sda1.

I'm using the Kernel Panics wiki like I usually do when I have to go through this: ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_panic) but when I try to chroot, I get this:

chroot: failed to run comman '/bin/bash': No such file or directory

Any ideas?  I'm pulling my hair out here.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Trying a recovery from a livedisc and chroot fails to run /bin/bash?!?

What liveUSB are you using? Is it Arch or some tiny distro?

Last edited by karol (2010-12-15 18:23:36)

ctarwater

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Re: Trying a recovery from a livedisc and chroot fails to run /bin/bash?!?

archlinux-2010.05-core-dual.iso and I used dd if to get it on there.

karol

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Re: Trying a recovery from a livedisc and chroot fails to run /bin/bash?!?

Ah, maybe you're trying to use a 64-bit binaries from the USB on a 32-bit system or vice-versa.

Last edited by karol (2010-12-15 18:28:42)

ctarwater

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Re: Trying a recovery from a livedisc and chroot fails to run /bin/bash?!?

I thought about that, but I'm choosing i686 from the live disc and I know for sure that the installed Arch system is i686 too.  (It's an original eee701)