Can't access tty problems (initramfs)

I'm getting the infamous "Can't access tty; job control turned off" message when I try to invoke the ash shell during my initial bootup. My kernel is 2.6.21.1 and I'm using busybox 1.5.0. I understand that ash requires a controlling tty rather than the console. Though, I don't understand all the

tty problems

I'm running the latest version of potato and I get the following problem chinook:~> finger finger: /dev//ttydirs/xxx/xx: No such file or directory Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone maxk Max Kamenetskydi 1:06 May 19 12:47 (:0.0) This

Strange tty problems

Hi! I've just installed hamm. And recently descovered a little problem with ttys and remote unix. Default terminal setting is xterm-debian which is non present on our Sun Ultra server at university. When I telnet on it, I set TERM to xterm and try to stty erase . But nothing changes. I continue