Author Topic: new install will not start...  (Read 3509 times)

vvulture

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 12
    • View Profile
new install will not start...
« on: September 30, 2007, 07:28:06 am »
Hi all...
Just performed a new install from the DVD onto a spare machine.
However, after the install finishes, i get the KUBUNTU splash screen for about 3 minutes ( does nothing and progress bar does not move ).
After this, i get a black screen with this message :

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs)


I have now tried this on 2 different machines with same results.

Any ideas ?

thank you

totallymaxed

  • LinuxMCE God
  • ****
  • Posts: 4660
  • Smart Home Consulting
    • View Profile
    • Dianemo - at home with technology
Re: new install will not start...
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2007, 09:21:23 am »
Hi all...
Just performed a new install from the DVD onto a spare machine.
However, after the install finishes, i get the KUBUNTU splash screen for about 3 minutes ( does nothing and progress bar does not move ).
After this, i get a black screen with this message :

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs)


I have now tried this on 2 different machines with same results.

Any ideas ?

thank you

Take a look at this thread on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=292533

On some hardware the Grub menu does not get created correctly and the boot partition cannot be found.
Andy Herron,
CHT Ltd

For Dianemo/LinuxMCE consulting advice;
@herron on Twitter, totallymaxed+inquiries@gmail.com via email or PM me here.

Get Dianemo-Rpi2 ARM Licenses http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=14026.0

Get RaspSqueeze-CEC or Raspbmc-CEC for Dianemo/LinuxMCE: http://wp.me/P4KgIc-5P

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dianemo-Home-Automation/226019387454465

http://www.dianemo.co.uk

linuxmce.org@sedwards.com

  • First post!
  • Posts: 1
    • View Profile
Re: new install will not start...
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2007, 04:54:19 pm »
My problem was with the Intel dg965wh motherboard. It (and I assume some other motherboards) insists that the boot partition be flagged as "bootable."

I have 1 IDE and 4 SATA drives. It (and/or grub) "sees" the IDE drive as sde and the boot partition as /dev/sde1.

I started in recovery mode, ran "fdisk /dev/sde," entered "a" (toggle a bootable flag), "1" (partition number), and  "w" (write table to disk).

totallymaxed

  • LinuxMCE God
  • ****
  • Posts: 4660
  • Smart Home Consulting
    • View Profile
    • Dianemo - at home with technology
Re: new install will not start...
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2007, 05:15:04 pm »
My problem was with the Intel dg965wh motherboard. It (and I assume some other motherboards) insists that the boot partition be flagged as "bootable."

I have 1 IDE and 4 SATA drives. It (and/or grub) "sees" the IDE drive as sde and the boot partition as /dev/sde1.

I started in recovery mode, ran "fdisk /dev/sde," entered "a" (toggle a bootable flag), "1" (partition number), and  "w" (write table to disk).

ok... I did not realise you were using a i965 board. We've had exactly the same situation here :-)
Andy Herron,
CHT Ltd

For Dianemo/LinuxMCE consulting advice;
@herron on Twitter, totallymaxed+inquiries@gmail.com via email or PM me here.

Get Dianemo-Rpi2 ARM Licenses http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=14026.0

Get RaspSqueeze-CEC or Raspbmc-CEC for Dianemo/LinuxMCE: http://wp.me/P4KgIc-5P

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dianemo-Home-Automation/226019387454465

http://www.dianemo.co.uk

vvulture

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 12
    • View Profile
Re: new install will not start...
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2007, 05:27:56 am »
thanks for the replies guys...
i got it working by using a different HDD. The HDD was the only common piece of hardware i had used on the 2 systems so it made sense see if it caused the problem...   as it turned out, i was right.

cheers