Hi Erez, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 09:14:16AM +0300, Erez D wrote: > I am using centos 6 and developing for an armel platform > > i created a rootfs using multistrap/debbootstrap > > i copied qemu-arm-static to rootfs/usr/bin/qemu-arm-static
Is this QEMU built for your host (presumably x86) or your target (ARM)? Do you really need to run QEMU on your target? > and i was astonished that doing just 'chroot rootfs' worked, without > explicitly telling 'chroot' to use qemu-arm-static - somehow it decided > automatically to run everything under qemu-arm-static without me telling it > to. > > after a restart of the server. rootfs does not work anymore automatically, > i get a "chroot: failed to run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error" > doing "chroot rootfs /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /bin/bash" does chroot, but > i get : "bash: /bin/cat: cannot execute binary file" (although > rootfs/bin/cat is a perfectly ok armel binary, tested on the armel target). > i also checked the md5sum of the rootfs/qemu-arm-static binary, and it is ok > > i mounted the rootfs on the armel target using nfs, and chrooted from the > target, and it works perfectly, meaning there is nothing wrong with the > rootfs filesystem Chrooted from what target? Is it a hardware ARM system? QEMU? baruch > as it wonderously worked, now it wonerously doesn't > > tryed googleling for it , but still cant find how to make it work > > any idea ? -- http://baruch.siach.name/blog/ ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - bar...@tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il