I'm glad you finally got it working. Just remember to back up your important data, just in case!
Glen Merrick ------------------------- Larry Wolfe wrote: > 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
