Chrooting while trying to reinstalling grub

[satish_bhat]

I have a peculiar problem as of now, I had multiple operating sys installed on my machine, of which Debian Linux sarge was one of them. The installation is the beta version of sarge and does not have the rescue option during boot

I have used grub as the boot-loader. It has crashed now giving an Error 22
I try to rescue using a Fedora Core 3 CD, by typing linux-rescue, it recognizes the linux part and loads it in /mnt/sysimage

However the next step is where I am stuc big time, chrooting by typing the command "chroot /mnt/sysimage" (sans quotes of course) only to get the following error
"unable to execute /bin/bash no such file or directory"

I have tried various combination of chroot commands,

I have tried to boot up using the debian DVD and using the shell command forcefully using the Alt+F2 command and then mounting the partitions manually, however I am stuck at the chroot command even then.

Please some one help me as I am not being able to use my machine for the past one week or so.

Thanks & Regards,
satish

[anon]

Well, is there a /bin/bash on /mnt/sysimage? Is it mounted with enough permissions. I'm asuming you're doinig this as root so the permission of your user isn't a problem.

[satish_bhat]

since I have booted with the linux rescue command, I guess the permissions are enough, I am not an expert user of linux. when I type the command "whoami", it returns root.

Using this I have manually mounted the partition. however when I try to do a chroot I get the error /bin/bash not found

I have checked it /mnt/sysimage/bin/bash is existing
there is also a /bin/bash so I am not able to figure out the problem