i had that problem also when i ran xconf but it seems as of now if you have an ATI no one knows the fix it so i simply solved my problem by re-installing bt with

bt~#mkdir /mnt/backtrack...

i solved it..... partially i would say.....
just run the live cd.....
and run through these commands

bt~#mkdir /mnt/backtrack
bt~#mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/backtrack
bt~#mkdir /mnt/backtrack/boot/...

well not entirely I was under the assumption i was looking for something to do with radeon and ati so i searched rad* and at* looking for something named similar to that and not knowing file names i...

yes lol....

i tried rad* before r* and at* before a* i just copy pasted those and changed it they weren't typed in, in the order i posted i apologize.

and btw rad would return results like...

id rather not just reinstall to solve all of my problems because then I can help other people when this problem comes up for them.

and i also forgot to mention ive tried

bt ~ # ls -la /dev/a*...

so just installed bt3 didnt have any problems until i rebooted after installing some files and decided to run "xconf" apparently a bad idea i refered to ShadowKill's thread about this under...

ok so i followed this link for installation

offensive-security.com/documentation/backtrack-hd-install.pdf

did everything had to add an extra partition because mkfs.ext3 would not write to...