A strange question about chroot

zxsmonkey · 04-12-2005, 11:25 AM

When I typed :

chroot "$LFS" /usr/bin/env -i \
HOME=/root TERM="$TERM" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin \
/bin/bash --login

just the same as LFS book

then I got "bash: chroot/mnt/lfs: no such file or directory"

but when i type "/usr/bin/env" it worked well

what did this mean????? what should I do to solve this problem??????

ps: LFS=.mnt/lfs

jxi · 04-12-2005, 12:23 PM

i'm gonna take a wild guess here and say try

LFS=/mnt/lfs

then rerun the command (and make sure there's a space between chroot and "$LFS"

i don't know Linux From Scratch but it looks like your're trying to 'change root' (chroot) to run as though /mnt/lfs is your /, and then alter/provide environmental (env -i) variables (HOME, TERM, ...) in that chrooted place.

BNI · 04-13-2005, 03:32 AM

Right you are, jxi.
zxsmonkey: make sure of your variable with "export LFS=/mnt/lfs" (assuming you mounted the lfs partition at /mnt/lfs...) and make sure there's a space between "chroot" and "$LFS".

zxsmonkey · 04-13-2005, 03:41 AM

I can make sure that $LFS=/mnt/lfs
and the space between "chroot" and "$LFS". but the result is the same .....

jxi · 04-13-2005, 09:58 AM

if in fact

Quote:

the result is the same .....

then i'm confused

I think this is the 'book' reference which you mentioned initially

archived lfs manual

i see no problem with the way it's described here.

What distro are you chrooting from?

Try something like these ( and post the output)

du -sh /

chroot $LFS du -sh /

uname -a

chroot $LFS uname -a

maybe try the above with the literal value of LFS (/mnt/lfs) in place of $LFS. oR, try that with the original command.

HTH

thegeekster · 04-18-2005, 11:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by zxsmonkey
...then I got "bash: chroot/mnt/lfs: no such file or directory"

...

ps: LFS=.mnt/lfs

Try setting LFS to /mnt/lfs and not .mnt/lfs (LFS=/mnt/lfs, not LFS=.mnt/lfs) and see what happens........