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

Asked by Dr Denise M Noha

Please help,

I left my PC on overnight, the next day it had crashed big time.

I get the error /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

I have looked at all the threads and can't figure out how to solve this. I booted from the live CD but my external drive with Ubuntu will not mount I get the error unable to mount wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or other error.

I would be grateful if anyone out there can explain how to get my system up and running again.

Or is it a lost cause.

I was running Feisty - and I must admit it was not very stable before this happened! This is shaking my faith in Ubuntu!

Cheers
Denise

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Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) said : 		#1

In the menu (Start or install ubuntu, ...) press F6 and before --, add this parameters:
acpi=force irqpoll
If it doesn't work, replace acpi=force with acpi=off.

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Dr Denise M Noha (denise-noha) said : 		#2

Andrea

Thank you for this response. I reinstalled Ubuntu onto my internal hard drive. I had Ubuntu on an external drive and it was unstable. Since the new installation I have less problems now.

Cheers
Denise

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codism (lplusplus) said : 		#3

just let others know Andrea Corbellini's solution solved my problem. I am installing ubuntu 7.04 on hp m7160n.