Hi Lonnie,
It's good to hear from you. I'm using geni586.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 11:11am
To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List" <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Can't Access TTY; Job Control Turned Off
Dan,
Are you using the geni586 or geni586-serial astlinux image?
Lonnie
On Apr 10, 2010, at 10:29 AM, d...@ryson.org wrote:
> All,
>
> Here's an update on efforts to install AstLinux on new hardware, which uses a
> SATA solid-state module in lieu of a hard-drive:
> • Added 'noram' to the end of the astlinux-0.7.1.run.conf file KCMD
> line (no joy)
> • Repeated install process, this time without using Windows to
> initially download AstLinux image (no joy)
> • Suspecting the SATA solid-state module, installed AstLinux on SATA
> hard drive (with solid-state module disconnected) instead (no joy)
> • Suspecting some Linux incompatibility problem with hardware,
> installed SUSI on SATA hard drive (SUSI works perfectly)
> By "no joy", I mean that I get this error, following an otherwise uneventful
> boot process:
>
> udhcpc: SIOCGIFINDEX failoed: No such device
> Verifying astlinux-0.7.1.run...
> astlinux-0.7.1.run verified
> Root mounted
> Custom initrd /mnt/base/os/initrd.img found
> Custom kernel /mnt/root/boot/bzImage found
> Copying kernel and initrd to ramdisk...
> Unmounting image...
> Trying kexec...
> Invalid memory segment 0x1ec46000 - 0x1ecaffff
> /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> /mnt/base/os $
> Now that I think of it, I've never asked: Is AstLinux compatible with SATA
> drives?
>
> As always, I would appreciate your thoughts.
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: d...@ryson.org
> Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 1:00pm
> To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List" <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Can't Access TTY; Job Control Turned Off
>
> Chris, Tom, Phillip and All,
>
> Thank you for the great ideas. I'll give them all a try at my next
> opportunity, hopefully tonight, and report my findings.
>
> Happy Easter!
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Chris Abnett" <eldorado...@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:26am
> To: "'AstLinux Users Mailing List'" <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Can't Access TTY; Job Control Turned Off
>
> From memory if I remember correctly the image is loaded at this point, and
> im thinking you can poke around.. but that you can get to /oldroot/cdrom
> and then eventually I found my way into a BIN directory where I could run
> busybox which contains vi… I would have to knock one of my machines off line
> to get to that state to find out.. but you can ‘cd’ around to find it. the
> other thing you can do is download “system rescue cd” and there are
> instructions on how to burn it to a USB stick(if you don’t have a CD drive),
> boot from that, mount the FAT partition on your astlinux drive and then make
> changes to that run.conf file.. I use that tool often..
>
> -Christopher
>
> From: d...@ryson.org [mailto:d...@ryson.org]
> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 8:08 AM
> To: AstLinux Users Mailing List
> Cc: AstLinux Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Can't Access TTY; Job Control Turned Off
>
> Darrick,
>
> Thank you for the reply and suggestions. Sorry for the delay in response;
> yard work and March Madness distracted me from my AstLinux hobby.
>
> Sadly, when this error occurs, although I'm left with a command prompt, I
> have no nano, vi, or other equally capable tool to edit
> astlinux-0.7.1.run.conf. Since I have no other SATA hardware here at home
> (my machines are mostly misfit toys), I can't try another machine today.
> Perhaps I'll have to bring the SATA drive to work and try editing it there.
>
> Here's another part of the symptom that seems strange: This machine also has
> a SATA CD ROM. I can successfully boot the astlinux.iso CD from the SATA CD
> ROM if the SATA solid-state drive is either disconnected or has had its
> partitions removed. However, once the AstLinux image is DD'd onto the
> solid-state drive, attempts to boot from either the CD or the SATA drive
> result in the error described below. I've also tried to boot the machine
> with just the SATA drive connected (and the CD ROM disconnected) with the
> same results.
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Darrick Hartman" <dhart...@djhsolutions.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 3, 2010 12:08pm
> To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List" <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Can't Access TTY; Job Control Turned Off
>
> Dan,
>
> Can you edit the astlinux-0.7.1.run.conf file and add noram to the end
> of the KCMD line?
>
> Not sure if that will work, but we may get closer to finding a resolution.
>
> Darrick
>
> On 04/03/2010 10:18 AM, d...@ryson.org wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I've been running Astlinux since the days of 0.4-something on an old
> > P3-800 at home. In hopes of replacing the hardware before it expires, I
> > bought a new HP Blade Client that's all SATA and uses a SATA solid-state
> > module in lieu of a hard drive.
> >
> > After using DD to copy the image to the SATA solid-state module,
> > rebooting from the module results in troubles. Here are the last bits of
> > text (transcribed by hand, so minor typos are likely):
> >
> > udhcpc: SIOCGIFINDEX failoed: No such device
> > Verifying astlinux-0.7.1.run...
> > astlinux-0.7.1.run verified
> > Root mounted
> > Custom initrd /mnt/base/os/initrd.img found
> > Custom kernel /mnt/root/boot/bzImage found
> > Copying kernel and initrd to ramdisk...
> > Unmounting image...
> > Trying kexec...
> > Invalid memory segment 0x1ec46000 - 0x1ecaffff
> > /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> > /mnt/base/os $
> >
> > For what it's worth, I Googled around and found that parts of this
> > (specifically /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off) looked
> > similar to a question regarding SCSI that came up last summer:
> >
> >>>> On 23-Jun-09, at 4:22 PM, Benny Strömberg wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>> I tried to install Astlinux on a SATA (sda) disk but I got the
> >>>>> following error message when booting the first time:
> >>>>> Runnix device not found
> >>>>> /bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
> >>>>> I have seen that several users are having the same issue but I
> >>>>> haven´t
> >>>>> seen any solution. Is there any?
> >>>
> >
> > I'd appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
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