/bin/sh: cant access tty; job control turned off

[willyshes1]

i am trying to reboot my kubuntu system and when it reachs mounting root file system it errors and says


booting 'ubunu kernel 2.6.25-27-386'

root (hda0,0)
filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
[linux-bzimage, setup=0x1c00, size=0x157860]
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-386
[linux-initrd @ 0x1e8ea000, 0x675882 bytes]
savedefault
boot
uncompressing linux... ok, booting the kernel.
[17179570.752000] pci: failed to allocate mem resource #6:10000@fc000000 for 0000:01:00.0
mount: mounting /devhda1 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 doesnt 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 access tty; job control turned off

im really new at this and would appreciate any help that could be given

[javierrivera]

Re: /bin/sh: cant access tty; job control turned off

mount: mounting /devhda1 on /root failed: invalid argument

This seems to be the real error. All the other are caused by this or are "known bugs".

It seems like one configuration file is missing one "/". I'm not sure which file is it. For me there are two main suspects:

a) /etc/fstab
b) /boot/grub/menu.lst

If you have a livecd handy, boot from it, navigate to one one of the files, right click on it, select edit as root.

In any of the files look for /devhda1, and change it to /dev/hda1

If you don't have a live-cd handy you still can do it from the command line, but it could be trickier if you don't have any experience with it.

Ask again if you need more help.

Javier.