[AuckLUG] /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

[Ravi Chemudugunta]

I suspect it has something do with with the boot loader settings, if you
upgrade the kernel and or do something that changes the boot loader it can
break things...check that your root partition is on hda1 ... if you
partitioned it, it maybe different, mine is hda3.  At the boot prompt, press
`e` to edit and try changing the root= parameter

hope this helps,

ravi

On 3/30/07, Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Were you able to mount the file system when using a live cd??
>
> On 3/29/07, Cheng Eu Chew <renedox at gmail.com> wrote:
> > so... I still can't find and answer to this problem... here is what I
> > get after it is says "uncompressing kernel"
> >
> > mount: mounting /dev/hda1 on /root failed: invalid argument
> > mount: mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: no such file or
> directory
> > mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
> > mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: no such file or directory
> > target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init
> >
> > busybox v1.01 (debian 1:1/01-4ubuntu3) built-in shell (ash)
> > enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands
> >
> > /bin/sh: can't acces tty; job control turned off
> >
> > wasn't able to find my files when I booted up with the ubuntu live CD...
> :|
> >
> > On 23/03/07, Martin Bähr <mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:47:32PM +1200, Cheng Eu Chew wrote:
> > > > I just restarted my computer as it was getting a little laggy for
> some
> > > > reason and when it starts up again, when trying to mount the root
> > > > filesystems it comes up with this error:
> > > >
> > > > BusyBox v1.01 (Debian 1:1.01-4ubuntu3) Built-in shell (ash)
> > > > Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> > > >
> > > > /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> > > > / #
> > >
> > > ignore that tty error, that's just a sideeffect, the real problem is
> > > that mounting root failed, and the question is why.
> > >
> > > my suspicion is that the filesystem check failed. you should be able
> to
> > > see the errors before you got to that shell.
> > >
> > > normally it is something like:
> > > automatic fsck failed, try it manually.
> > >
> > > if that is the case then that is what you should do.
> > > find out for which device the fsck failed and run fsck on it in that
> shell.
> > > depending on the severity of the problem, it may ask you a few
> > > questions. generally it doesn't make any sense to answer anything but
> > > yes, however: if the case is really bad then you may loose data.
> > >
> > > do you have a backup? if yes, then proceed, if no then is there
> anything
> > > of importance on that disk? if yes, boot from a live cd and make a
> > > backup of the diskimage before! running any fsck.
> > > then run fsck. if you lost important files after the fsck come back
> here
> > > to ask for hints how you might recover them from the backup image.
> > >
> > > (i had one case where the normal fsck would have wiped the whole disk
> > > because the superblock was totally hosed and all directory information
> > > was lost but because i had a backupi of the broken diskimage i could
> try
> > > another way which helped me recover 2/3rds of the data.)
> > >
> > > if the fsck succeeds without to many errors, and most importantly, no
> > > files in lost+found then try rebooting.
> > >
> > > greetings, martin.
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