[SOLVED] arch-chroot: Command not found

Hey,
I installed Windows 8 alongside Archlinux, so I need to restore my bootloader. I've downloaded the recent image of Arch, made it onto a bootable usb pen drive and booted it without any problems. However, I can't seem to find the arch-chroot binaries (and manually chroot-ing into /mnt after mounting everything fails because bash is not found).
Am I doing something wrong or is the wiki out of date?
Last edited by GreenTime (2012-11-01 10:16:56)

You're doing something wrong.
Download latest iso and use dd to write it to usb and verify md5 on iso and usb.
Edit: Normally I roll my own iso with archiso, but to be absolutelly sure on my answer to you, then i've just downloaded latest official iso and tested in a vm, and as expected, arch-chroot is present and working fine.
Last edited by mhertz (2012-11-01 01:49:59)

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