Could someone please please please help me? :-) I've spent about 8 hours on this now and it's causing me to pull my hair out. Googling seems to largely reveal a few people in the past who have had the same problem but no one has suggested the cause or a resolution :-(
I'm trying to install Etch on a Dual Opteron 265 using the Tyan K8SRE motherboard. When I get to the stage of installing the base system it downloads all the packages then comes up with the error "Debootstrap warning - Installer error: Failure trying to run: chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc" and won't proceed any further. If I Alt-F4 it says: debootstrap: chroot: debootstrap: cannot execute mount debootstrap: : No such file or directory If I do 'chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc' I get: chroot: cannot execute mount: No such file or directory If I just 'mount' it lists the mounts ok. If I /target/mount it also lists the mounts ok. 'chroot /target' results in: chroot: cannot execute /bin/sh: No such file or directory Yet /bin/sh works as does /target/bin/sh ! This is on a RAID1 (md0) between 2 disks with an ext3 mount of / on the md0. Although it does the same thing if I just create a plain ext3 / on one disk. mount outputs this: tmpfs on / type tmpfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw, nodiratime) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) tmpfs on /.dev type tmpfs (rw) /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro) /dev/md/0 on /target type ext3 (rw,data=ordered) cat /target/fstab results in: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/md0 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user, noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 # UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM I've tried the daily, weekly, and r2 etch installer :-( I really need to install the AMD64 port of Debian so using a i386 installer isn't an option (even if that would help). Immense gratitude to any kindly soul who saves me from my torment! -- ------------------------------------------------------ "Women are always right when they're /naked/" - Andrew Neil "That's the only reason I am certain there is a God - because there are large breasted women" - Warren Harper, Christian http://www.robhulme.com/ http://robhu.livejournal.com/
