chrrot problem
 

I was going through the install of an LFS system and everything was going fine as far I could tell till ch6.

I came accross this info to input and it wouldn't let me continue.
I get this error message:
/usr/sbin/chroot: cannot change root directory to /lfs: Operation not permitted.

I haven't a clue where to even begin to decode this problem. Plz help.

Re: chrrot problem
 

run "cat /etc/mtab" and show us the lines that relate to your mounted LFS partition.

/dev/hdd1 /lfs ext2 rw 0 0

that's all that I see that is related to my lfs partition
here is the rest just in case i forgot something

/dev/hda1 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /lfs ext2 rw 0 0

That is the whole thing.

Looks good.

The other reason fo this error could be you not running chroot as user root

I should've said that before, since that's the number #1 reason for chroot failures.

So, make sure you're root.

I thought that might have been the problem so I had tried that. But it didn't work then. However, now it worked. Thanks for your fast responses and your help.