bt3final_usb - error when booting

[paul_31]

Hi,

I downloaded the CD ISO of BT3 and had no problems with this, thought it was great and now want to get BT3 booting from USB. I have now downloaded bt3final_usb.iso and I followed the guide on the Wiki of how to make a bootable USB drive.

When I try and boot from this I get the boot menu, select an option and then during the load i get the following error -

* looking for data directory
Fatal error occured - BT3 data not found.
You are maybe using an unsupported boot device (eg. SCSI or old PCMCIA).
Workaround: Copy the directory BT3 from your boot device to an IDE/SATA disk, eg. to /mht.hda1/BT3 or C:\BT3. Then try to boot again.
* Something went wrong and we can't continue. This should never happen.
* Please reboot your computer with Ctrl+Alt+Delete ...

Obviously as I want to boot from the USB pen-drive then copying the BT3 directory to an IDE/SATA disk defeats the object! I have got the BT3 directory on the root of the drive but don't really understand why I am getting this error.

Any ideas guys?
Thanks.

[emily]

It would be easier to help you if you could explain what you did between downloading the iso and trying to boot :)

[paul_31]

Hi,

I followed the guide on the Wiki at this page - htp :// wiki.remote-exploit.org/ index.php/Howto:USB_Stick
(Sorry had to break up URL as i am not allowed to post them yet)

Thanks,
Paul.

[matt1982]

Try adding this to the boot options.

Press tab on the boot menu for your chosen boot choice.

Then add to the end of the line:

acpi=off

this worked for me when my laptop used to throw the same error.

Hope if works

Matt

[bofh28]

Try adding this to the boot options.
Press tab on the boot menu for your chosen boot choice.
Then add to the end of the line:

acpi=off

this worked for me when my laptop used to throw the same error.
Hope if works
Matt

I have a bunch of HP PCs that have broken BIOSs. I can use acpi=off to get BT to boot but I found that pci=conf1 works better as this doesn't disable acpi, it just works around the broken parts. if pci=conf1 doesn't work try pci=conf2
Sorry there is no pci=conf3 so if neither one works you are stuck with acpi=off until a newer bios fixes the problem.

[emily]

this worked for me when my laptop used to throw the same error.

Oh, weird. I thought there was a problem with the way BT was installed. Hopefully your solution works for paul_31 :)

[paul_31]

Hi bofh28,

Thanks for your reply. I have tried all 3 combinations with the KDE option but still get the same error during the boot.

Any other ideas guys? Is there a better process to make the bootable USB if I start again?

Cheers.

[bofh28]

Hi bofh28,

Thanks for your reply. I have tried all 3 combinations with the KDE option but still get the same error during the boot.

Any other ideas guys? Is there a better process to make the bootable USB if I start again?

Cheers.

personally I never boot to KDE or flux as that has caused me problems in the past. I just do a text boot. Try removing the vga=???? and autoexec=??? lines from your isolinux.cfg. If you did not setup your flash drive from persistent changes get rid of the changes=/changes/slaxsave.dat

This is my isolinux.cfg
PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 40
DEFAULT /boot/vesamenu.c32

LABEL pchanges
MENU LABEL BT3 text mode with Persistent Changes (HP7700)
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=9999 root=/dev/ram0 rw changes=/changes/slaxsave.dat pci=conf1