[gentoo-user] Re: bash: mount: command not found

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

Don wrote:

> [root@hei don]# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
> bash-2.05b# env-update
>>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
> bash-2.05b# source /etc/profile
> hei / # ls
> bin  boot  dev  etc  home  lib  lost+found  mnt  opt  proc  root  sbin
> stage1-x86-2004.3.tar.bz2  sys  tmp  usr  var
> hei / # mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
> bash: mount: command not found
> 'mount /mnt/gentoo' also says 'no such file or directory'.
>
> Any ideas?

It looks like you're installing gentoo.  If so, then you have the commands
out of order.  You should have done the mount command before chrooting.  If
you goofed and chrooted before mounting proc, you may be able to do this:

(from your chroot environment)
# exit
# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
# env-update
# source /etc/profile

Then you'll be back where you left off.

Viz. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6

To understand what's happening, man chroot.  But the readers digest version
is this:  'chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash' means that what was
once /mnt/gentoo is now / (and you're using bash for a shell).


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