On Sat, 7 Apr 2012, Brett Pemberton <brett.pemberton@gmail.com> wrote:
For some stupid reason I had done the above from a debian i686 rescue flash drive. So naturally when I went to chroot, I couldn't, since this is an amd64 system.
For future reference, if you create your i686 rescue disk with an amd64 kernel as a boot option then things will all work as you desire. An amd64 kernel works fine with i686 user-space (I've done that many times) and you can then chroot to an amd64 environment. The advantage of doing this is that if your flash device is too small to contain all the utilities etc for a second installation of Linux (both i686 and amd64) but big enough to have an extra kernel then you can have everything work on i686 and amd64 systems. Brett, you probably already know this, but I think it'll be useful to some other readers. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/