I ran into the same problem when using debootstrap on Debian Etch. I found out my USB device was mounted with the following (default in usbmount) options: noexec,nodev. I removed these from /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf which solved the problem.
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I ran into the same problem
I ran into the same problem when using debootstrap on Debian Etch. I found out my USB device was mounted with the following (default in usbmount) options: noexec,nodev. I removed these from /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf which solved the problem.