Hello, i have dedicated host in server4you.de, and i'm trying to reinstall their standard system.

i booted to rescue mode (its ubuntu 32bit), and i installed amd 64 debian on mounted disk, but i can't chroot there:

chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error

its becouse i'm booted to 32bit kernel, so it can't run /bin/bash that is 64bit

but without chrooting i will have trouble making this system able to boot i think. (how do i install lilo and such?)

so what can i do? i can't install any new software as ubuntu is mostly read-only (at least its /usr /bin and such)

of course i have writable space, but on other disk... any ideas?

i don't know german, so i can't even ask server4you.de users how they deal with it..

You can ask the people on the English version: http://www.server4you.com/

server4you.com has nothing to do with server4you.de, thats what i was told on server4.you.com chat, besides its more technical thing than server4you thing and it all depends on the dedicated server control panel - if it doesnt have option to boot amd64 kernel then i can't boot it and i have to handle it another way.

i have to run it somehow on 32 kernel, or somehow run 64bit kernel from within 32bit kernel, or maybe not even chroot it...

any ideas how to do it?

no ideas anyone?