Many thanks to hoagies, gmerrick and hop0 for the suggestions. I knew I had a lot of research to do before I could even comprehend what was being said (I'm an old guy who is barely literate in computers), so I took the easy way out. I again downloaded the desktop verison of 7.04, burned an ISO CD and installed it on the Western Digital external hard drive (USB connection). Even though I know the definition of insanity is repeating the same process and expecting different results, it appears that at least this one time, it may have worked.
In all previous installations of of 7.04 and 6.06 the system never displayed the boot options at start-up, now when the machine is powered up, the several boot options are displayed with Ubuntu Kernel 2.6.20-15-generic being the default which will boot unless I intervene and select another. Since this latest installation of 7.04 I must have successfuly rebooted six or seven times...not once did I encounter the dreaded /bin/sh: cant access....etc. Fingers will remain crossed for quite a while, but so far so good. I wish I could add some insight that would be helpful to people who continue to have trouble with this particular bug, but, even if it was me (and not software or hardware) doing something wrong, I don't know what it could have been. Thanks again to all and good luck! -- 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
