News:

Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com

Main Menu

new install will not start...

Started by vvulture, September 30, 2007, 07:28:06 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

vvulture

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

Quote from: vvulture 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

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 [url="http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=14026.0"]http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=14026.0[/url]

Get RaspSqueeze-CEC or Raspbmc-CEC for Dianemo/LinuxMCE: [url="http://wp.me/P4KgIc-5P"]http://wp.me/P4KgIc-5P[/url]

Facebook: [url="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dianemo-Home-Automation/226019387454465"]https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dianemo-Home-Automation/226019387454465[/url]

[url="http://www.dianemo.co.uk"]http://www.dianemo.co.uk[/url]

linuxmce.org@sedwards.com

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

Quote from: linuxmce.org@sedwards.com 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).

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 [url="http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=14026.0"]http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=14026.0[/url]

Get RaspSqueeze-CEC or Raspbmc-CEC for Dianemo/LinuxMCE: [url="http://wp.me/P4KgIc-5P"]http://wp.me/P4KgIc-5P[/url]

Facebook: [url="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dianemo-Home-Automation/226019387454465"]https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dianemo-Home-Automation/226019387454465[/url]

[url="http://www.dianemo.co.uk"]http://www.dianemo.co.uk[/url]

vvulture

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