We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in
the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further.
However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and
feel free to submit bug reports in the future.
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Reefa: could you attach the output from:
dd if=/dev/hda bs=2550 count=10 seek=8225280 | gzip >
reefa-2550-8225280.img.gz
aswell please. In 'gparted', 'hda1' and 'hda4' would be on the same
level as they are primary partitions; 'hda5' and above will probably be
indented as they are secondary p
Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
cat reefa-disk-start-128k.img > huge.img
dd if=/dev/zero of=huge.img seek=164G bs=1 count=1
fdisk -C 19929 -S 63 -H 255 reefa-disk-start-128k.img
Warning: inv
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 2318825599577+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda4 *3189 19929 134472082+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda5 22550204748117 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda62551
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=128 | gzip >
reefa-disk-start-128k.img.gz
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
131072 bytes (131 kB) copied, 0.080303 seconds, 1.6 MB/s
** Attachment added: "sudo dd if=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=128 | gzip >
reefa-disk-start-128k.img.gz"
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cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
3 0 160086528 hda
7 0 647432 loop0
Seems like the kernel isn't reading the partition table, even if 'fdisk'
is managing to.
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After install: "/bin/sh: Can't access tty; Job control turned off"
https://launchpad.net/bugs/86345
ls -l /dev/[sh]d*
brw-rw 1 root disk3, 0 2007-02-19 14:59 /dev/hda
brw-rw 1 root floppy 3, 64 2007-02-19 15:00 /dev/hdb
brw-rw 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2007-02-19 14:59 /dev/hdc
'/dev/hdb' is a Zip drive, '/dev/hdc' is the optical.
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After install: "/bin/sh: Can't access tty;
sudo mount /dev/hda6 /mnt
mount: special device /dev/hda6 does not exist
ls -l /dev/hda*
brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 0 2007-02-19 14:59 /dev/hda
sudo file -s /dev/hda
/dev/hda: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR, Serial 0x6cb4;
partition 1: ID=0xf, starthead 0, startsector 16065, 511991
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 2318825599577+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda4 *3189 19929 134472082+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda5 22550204748117 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda62551
Reefa's partitioning scheme is:
{WinXP, Ubuntu root, 128GB big NTFS, Ubuntu swap}
Assuming that this is a case of grub getting the wrong 'root=', then
following the chain back we get:
20:05 cjwatson: which part of ubiquity selects the partitions to be
passed to grub post-install?
20:06 (cau
This could be a dup of #59792.
** Summary changed:
- Ubuntu 6.10 amd64 on boot tty can't start job control
+ After install: "/bin/sh: Can't access tty; Job control turned off"
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After install: "/bin/sh: Can't access tty; Job control turned off"
https://launchpad.net/bugs/86345
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