File System Error - /bin/sh:can't access tty;job control turned off [/b]

[Rayson]

We get the following message when attempting to boot up a machine that used to work well. I have no idea about what caused this or how to solve the problem except rebuild Linux.

Boot'Ubuntu ,kernel 2.6.15-23-368'

root (hd0,2)
Filesystem type is ext2fs ,partition type Ox83
Kernel /boot /vmlinuz-2.6.15-23-386 root =/dev/hda 3 ro quite splash
[linux -bzImage ,setup =0x1c00, size 0x15774d]
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-23-386
[linux .inited @ 1e883000,oxbacaofbytes]
save defult
boot
uncompressing Linux......Ok,booting the kernel.
[4294670.105000]PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:1d.0
mount:Mounting /dev/hda3 on /root failed : No such device
mount:Mounting /root/dev on dev/.static /dev failed : No such file or directory
mount:Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed :No such filr or directory
mount :Mounting /dev/hda3 on/root /proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't 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

Suggestions on how to solve this problem would be much appreciated.

Ray

[dibl]

Re: File System Error - /bin/sh:can't access tty;job control turned off [/b]

I think this is where the real problem begins:

mount:Mounting /dev/hda3 on /root failed : No such device
mount:Mounting /root/dev on dev/.static /dev failed : No such file or directory
mount:Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed :No such filr or directory
mount :Mounting /dev/hda3 on/root /proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init

It begins to boot, starts up the kernel, and then can't find the filesystem on /dev/sda3. You can completely disregard the PCI bus "resource allocation" error -- that is an artifact.

/dev/hda3 is your root partition (same as (hd0,2)).

If you have, or can make from a downloaded ISO, a Linux Live CD, and boot that. With the hard drive still unmounted, you can run fsck on it, but I don't think this is a mere filesystem error. Then you can mount your hard drive and examine the /etc/fstab file, to see if there's some problem with the designation of partitions.

Have you made any hardware changes lately -- added or removed a hard drive, an optical drive, or anything like that?

[Rayson]

Re: File System Error - /bin/sh:can't access tty;job control turned off [/b]

Thanks -

After experiencing the file system problem, I was going to reinstall 6.06 however this laptop has a faulty CD drive. I tried to put a working drive back into the laptop but it doesn't work so it appears that until I can get a working drive into this machine, there is nothing I can do. Does that seem correct?

Any additional ideas?

Ray