chroot into the system

[naturalselection]

Hi,

Last night i was installing Gentoo ,as i came to the kernel-part i turned the computer off.
Now that i'm trying to continue where i left off i'm having trouble chroot into my system from the minimum cd. When i enter the command...

# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash

...i get...

chroot: cannot run command '/bin/bash' : No such file or directory

I have check /bin ,and 'bash' is there.

Is there something i have to do before entering the chroot command ,am i doing something wrong or did i mess up bigtime and there is no way to return to the installation?

[ajje]

Hi!

These things you have to do again:

mount your partition to /mnt/gentoo

swapon

mount the /proc and /dev

Then you can chroot

I'm just trying gentoo also but i'm having trouble compiling the kernel...
Let me know how you did...

[sdousley]

When i enter the command...

# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash

...i get...

chroot: cannot run command '/bin/bash' : No such file or directory

as ajje said, you need to mount the gentoo partitions first to /mnt/gentoo. Make sure u mount all partitions you may have created, so /, /boot, /home etc, also making sure any other partitions like /boot are mounted to /mnt/gentoo/boot as earlier in the manual.
The reason for this is the /bin/bash in the chroot command here, refers to /bin/bash in the chroot environment. It is not the /bin/bash in the host system.

[arewhyainn]

I'm having the same problem chroot. I'm trying to make me a sandbox/jail. all I have don't is installed the coreutils and bash, in to a folder called /sandbox, everything seems to be in the right location, but it gives me the same error.

this is how I have it

/sandbox/bin/bash

then i "chroot /sandbox"

I've have boot knoppix in the past and done it will my filesystem.

[arewhyainn]

never mind, it would help if I had the libs install too