+++ Amandeep Bhullar [2009-06-16 10:54 -0300]: > I also tried: > > # debootstrap --arch arm lenny /Emdebian [1]http://www.emdebian.org/grip > > Got the same error. Is it because I am running it on my desktop and it > wont chroot into arm based root (I wonder)?
Yes. (executive version of this email: use multistrap instead of debootstrap to cross-bootstrap grip). Details below. > W: Failure trying to run: chroot /Emdebian mount -t proc proc /proc That runs the 'mount' command inside the chroot, which is an arm binary, which won't work on your non-arm desktop machine. Try it: # chroot /Emdebian mount -t proc proc /proc chroot: cannot run command mount': Exec format error As you have observed you need to do a debootstrap --foreign for this to work. # debootstrap --arch=arm --foreign lenny grip/ http://www.emdebian.org/grip/ Now what do I do next? Normally if I make a native root FS for my desktop using debootstrap, after "Extracting zlib1g' it says Base system installed successfully. It did not do that here. If i make a tarball of this root FS folder that is grip/; how do I install it on my target now. That depends on your target. Somehow you need to copy the tarball onto the device. Or possibly make the tarball into a rootfs image for the relevant filesystem and tftp/dd that onto the device. Then you should be able to boot into it and do /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage However this can be complicated by having to have the correct console setup (such as the console configured in /etc/securetty) and inittab to generate gettys on the right devices and so on before it will boot enough for you to actually run the above command. So what you probably actually want to do, in order to generate grip-based bootable rootfs images for target devices, is to use multistrap instead of debootstrap. This tool uses apt and debootstrap to download the correct dependencies and unpack them, but it also runs machine-specific scripts to configure the root images enough to make them bootable and then complete the debootstrap second stage. It also enormously reduces the image size by removing all the .debs from the apt cache. In package 'multistrap'. Wookey -- Principal hats: iEndian - Balloonboard - Toby Churchill - Emdebian http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
