can't access tty; job control turned off

John Dangler jdangler at atlantic.net
Sat Jan 27 03:45:57 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 20:10 -0500, Dick Dowdell wrote:
> I'm having getting exactly the same error trying to install Edgy on a
> Sony PCG-N505VX.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dick Dowdell
> 
> On 1/26/07, Todd Slater <dontodd at gmail.com> wrote:
>         I'm trying to upgrade my Toshiba Portege 3500 from Dapper to
>         Edgy. I 
>         booted the live CD (which I know works because I used it to
>         install
>         Edgy on my desktop), chose boot/install, and the splash comes
>         up and
>         it looks like it's going to start, then it drops to the shell
>         and
>         gives the error: can't access tty; job control turned off. 
>         
>         I tried rebooting and choosing different graphics mode, but I
>         get the
>         same error. I've googled and found lots of people with the
>         same issue
>         but not solution. I'm hoping to get a hit here.
>         
>         Thanks, 
>         
>         Todd
Todd, Dick~
Can you go into your grub.lst and set the video and other params ?

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