Many thanks for the advice. I followed both suggestions. >From the Western Digital site I downloaded something called Data Lifeguard and used it to run an extended diagnostic test of the drive. After running 48 minutes and testing every sector, the drive passed. So I'm reasonably sure that the drive is not the problem.
I have two possible kernels bto use: 2.6.15-28-386 and 2.6.15-26-386. I get the same /bin/sh can't access tty...etc. message with each one. There is also a "Recovery" option under each kernel. I tried that once and at some point in the boot process, it wanted me to enter a command. I had no idea what I needed to enter to continue the boot so I just exited and shut down. The thing that baffles me so is that if I reinstalled 6.06 from the ISO disk that I burned, the thing will boot fine for one or two times, then it fails and gives the /bin/sh can't...etc. Thanks again for the suggestions. I've subscribed to receive all the posts on this bug, but if you see a fix or work-around elsewhere, I'd be grateful if you'd pass it on to me. Regards, Larry Wolfe ----- Original Message ----- From: "gmerrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [Bug 96084] Re: boot - /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off if you have a WD drive, go to the WD website and download one of their ISO's that can check your drive. You may have a bad drive. Also to try is one of the older kernel versions that appear in GRUB when you start up. That worked for me on my laptop. Larry Wolfe wrote: > As was the case with 7.04, the 6.06 version that was reinstalled on the > Western Digital hard drive booted twice uneventfully. The third attempt > to boot produced the /bin/sh: can't access....etc. message. Although > millions may successfully be runnning Ubuntu, after many weeks of > playing with it, I have concluded that I am evidently not sophisticated > enough to use Ubuntu. Good luck to all in sorting out this bug. > > -- boot - /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96084 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. -- boot - /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96084 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
