chroot desn't work

Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Mon Mar 3 17:38:05 CET 2008


On Monday 03 March 2008, Federico wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm following this guide:
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Getting_OpenMoko_working_on_host_with_Xephyr
>
> I copy rootfs on mokobox but when i chroot into it i have this issue:
> sudo chroot mokobox /bin/sh
> chroot: cannot run command `/bin/sh': Exec format error
>
> Why? In mokobox directory sh is present in /bin :/

Did it build for a different platform to the one you are running on? Check the 
format of the the executable from outside the chroot using:
	file mokobox/bin/sh




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