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

[Krsnendu dasa]

Isn't it a problem booting the system rescue cd?

Because it is booting from the cd it shouldn't have anything to do
with ubuntu or the grub on the hard drive.

Some background:
System rescue CD seemed to be the solution to our backup needs as it
boots on a test machine and backs up, restores etc. painlessly. But
now it is not working on the main machine with a different motherboard
and linux software raid 10 and lvm.

We also had problems getting mindi / mondo to boot.
It might be worth looking at clonezilla.

Krsnendu dasa

On 24/10/2007, WangTanky <tanky_wang_81 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Wang Tanky
>  The reason im using the tar method is when i boot into system rescue CD, it
> will start booting and then about half way it comes out with
>
>  /bin/sh: Can't access tty; job control turned off
>
>  both the tar Method and System rescue cd has problems
>
>  Can anyone tell me either it is a hardware problem or a software problem...
>
>  Even better can you tell me a solution please....
>
>  Thanks
>
> > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:57:12 -1000
> > From: scott at hosef.org
> > To: tanky_wang_81 at hotmail.com
> > Subject: Re: Error: /bin/sh: Can't access tty; job control turned off
>
> >
> > WangTanky wrote:
> > > My name is Qifeng Wang. You can call me Hank. I am doing a networking
> > > project for a primary school and I am using Edubuntu 7.04 for the school
> > > network. At the moment, the system works properly and effectively.
> > > However, I have a question about backing up system by using command tar.
> > > It works find if system is not crashed. But when I tried to use tar to
> > > back up system to a new hard disk, it did not work. And I try to restore
> > > Grub by using an Edubuntu Live CD and rebooted system. Still not help.
> > >
> > > System says: /bin/sh: Can't access tty; job control turned off
> > >
> > > I was really stuck. Do you have any ideas about this?
> >
> > Aloha Hank
> >
> > Please forgive me if tar is your preferred tool for this. I don't have
> > a suggestion to help what you are doing. I would ask, though, if you
> > are looking for a tool to do a bare-metal restore in case of
> > catastrophe? If so, you may want to look at Clonezilla and/or DRBL.
> > Clonezilla, either from the live-cd, or launched by PXE from DRBL, is
> > breathtaking. You can easily image disk to disk, disk to image, image
> > to disk, partition to partition, partition to image, image to partition,
> > resize partitions, etc. Your images can be on removable media, a
> > network drive, a ssh server, etc.
> >
> > Example - a few Sundays ago we used DRBL to PXE boot 50 donated
> > workstations into a Clonezilla environment. In batches of 8 we did a
> > bare-metal mulitcast restore. It took 5 minutes per group of 8 to do a
> > complete restore from a blank hard drive to a fully functional Edubuntu
> > 7.10 desktop. A few computers required the "sudo dpkg-reconfigure
> > -phigh xserver-xorg" and "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart" commands to
> > configure the xserver. As for the rest, Edubuntu Gutsy automagically
> > 'just worked'. The machines were PIII 600-900 mhz with 256mb of ram.
> >
> >
> > --scott
>
>
> ________________________________
> 使用新一代 Windows Live Messenger 轻松交流和共享！ 立即体验！
> --
> edubuntu-users mailing list
> edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
>
>