chroot to arm with qemu

stormtracknole · 06-01-2015, 09:25 PM

Has anyone been successful in setting up a chroot for slackwarearm? I tried following this guide here,but I am still getting the dreaded:

Code:

chroot: failed to run command '/bin/bash': No such file or directory

I have tried other tutorials that I have found on Google, but still have not been successful.

I even tried this one, but still no luck.

Before I throw in the towel, wanted to come here and see if anyone could help. Thanks!

smallpond · 06-03-2015, 06:23 AM

Have you populated a filesystem with arm executables? Does its bin directory contain bash?

stormtracknole · 06-03-2015, 01:06 PM

It turned out that qemu-arm-static was not being built as a static binary. Once I did that, everything was fine. However, even using chroot, compiling programs is still painfully slow.

drmozes · 06-03-2015, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stormtracknole

It turned out that qemu-arm-static was not being built as a static binary. Once I did that, everything was fine. However, even using chroot, compiling programs is still painfully slow.

Well it's being emulated, after all. It's faster to build natively than inside QEMU. A Banana Pi is a cheap and fast ARM machine.

stormtracknole · 06-03-2015, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drmozes

Well it's being emulated, after all. It's faster to build natively than inside QEMU. A Banana Pi is a cheap and fast ARM machine.

I may have to give that a try. Thank you for pointing that out.

stormtracknole · 06-03-2015, 01:37 PM

I did recently purchase a raspberry pi 2 b and it's pretty good. Much faster than building on qemu or chroot. I may just get extra sd drives and keep a clone to quickly restore.