Comment 79 for bug 96084

Hi,

I just upgraded a Ubuntu desktop to version 7.04 from 6.10 (which worked perfectly) and experienced the same problem with the "can't access tty; job control turned off" error. However, I found the solution for this particular machine quite simple and painless.

When the machine was booting, I pressed escape at the Grub prompt to go to the boot menu (see the first photo). By default, Ubuntu was trying to boot the kernel "2.6.20-15-386" (top of the list, second photo), but I found if I selected the "2.6.20-15-generic" kernel, the computer booted with no problem! (Actually, at first X complained of not being able to load the "nvidia" driver, so I simply changed the entry in my xorg.conf back to "nv" - but I think this is a separate issue).

Once the computer was up and running, I edited the "/boot/grub/menu.lst" file to boot the "2.6.20-15-generic" kernel by default, and the compter has been running like a charm ever since.

If anyone wants more info, I'm happy to help!

The computer is a Pentium III, with an ATA hard drive.