Getting "/bin/sh can't access tty job control turned off" after adding a new HDD [Archive]

gardara

August 13th, 2009, 09:39 PM

I have no idea if I'm allowed to post this here... wasn't there a subforum for other distros? I can't seem to find it.

Anyhow, I'm having problems with my debian fileserver.

I just installed a new HDD and I'm getting this error

Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
Booting the kernel
Loading, please wait...
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No Such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No Such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No Such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init.
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg

Busybox v1.10.2 (Debian 1:1.10.2-2) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands.

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

Any ideas how I could fix this?

calrogman

August 13th, 2009, 09:47 PM

I have no idea if I'm allowed to post this here... wasn't there a subforum for other distros? I can't seem to find it.

Anyhow, I'm having problems with my debian fileserver.

I just installed a new HDD and I'm getting this error

Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
Booting the kernel
Loading, please wait...
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No Such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No Such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No Such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init.
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg

Busybox v1.10.2 (Debian 1:1.10.2-2) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands.

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

Any ideas how I could fix this?

Take out the new hard drive and learn how to edit /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst to use UUID's instead of /dev/sdx block devices.

gardara

August 13th, 2009, 10:43 PM

Take out the new hard drive and learn how to edit /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst to use UUID's instead of /dev/sdx block devices.

allright, any links or something to get me started? :)

tom66

August 13th, 2009, 10:45 PM

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

(First Google result for me.)

gardara

August 13th, 2009, 10:47 PM

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

(First Google result for me.)

Am I blind or don't they mention anything about UUID's?

Yes

August 13th, 2009, 10:59 PM

This might help - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab#Using_UUID_Identifiers

.Maleficus.

August 13th, 2009, 11:32 PM

To actually find the UUID of your devices, you can use either:

blkid
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
I'm not sure if Ubuntu has 'blkid' but 'ls' should work fine.

gardara

August 14th, 2009, 11:23 AM

Cheers guys!

Setting uuid's in my fstab and menu.lst worked!

Such a simple fix for a problem I just couldn't find the solution for!