BT4 beta Hard drive install

[pcstalljr]

awesome! thanks. worked for me first try. on a 16GB usb stick

[Pyro01]

Ok, I got my lilo.conf file. This is all installed on a USB Slimdrive. When I boot it all up I get a kernal error, and I think it's related to the warning it gives me when I run lilo -v. But first, the lilo.conf file

lba32
boot=/dev/sdb
root=/dev/sdb3
# bitmap=/boot/sarge.bmp
# bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0
# bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17
# bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0
# install=bmp
prompt
timeout=50
# map=/boot/map
vga=0x317
image=/boot/vmlinuz
      label="BT4"
      read-only
      initrd=/boot/splash.initrd
      append=quiet

When I run lilo -v, this is the output:

Reading boot sector from /dev/sdb
Warning: /dev/sdb is not on the first disk
Using MENU secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data

Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
Mapping RAM disk /boot/splash.initrd
Added BT4 *

Writing boot sector.
/boot/boot.0810 exists - no boot sector backup copy made.
One warning was issued.

Now I know the boot partition /dev/sdb1 is flagged as bootable when I go into fdisk /dev/sdb. The /dev/sdb2 partition is the swap, and the /dev/sdb3 is the root folder. This could only mean that my problem should be somewhere in the lilo.conf file, right? I'll post the fstab just in case:

/dev/sdb3 / reiserfs defaults 0 0 # AutoUpdate
/dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # AutoUpdate
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 # AutoUpdate
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 # AutoUpdate
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 # AutoUpdate

When I go to boot off the USB harddrive, it gives me this error on the backtrack bootup screen, after I selcet "BT4" from Lilo.

"Kernal panic - not syncing: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,19)"

[jhutchins11]

I have installed ubuntu 8.10 on my /dev/sda1 and am trying to install BT4 on my /dev/sda2 with /dev/sda3 as swap. The trouble I am having is when running lilo -v ther error that I receive is

Boot other: /dev/sda1, on /dev/sda, loader CHAIN
Fatal:First sector of /dev/sda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature

My lilo is configured as:

lba32
boot=/dev/sda
change-rules
reset
prompt
timeout=50
root=/dev/sda
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=BT4
read-only
initrd=/boot/splash.initrd
append=quiet
other=/dev/sda1
label=UBUNTU
table=/dev/sda

Anyone have any ideas? I know the issue is probably with ubuntu 8.10 which I don't have much experience with yet.

[akaars]

I have installed ubuntu 8.10 on my /dev/sda1 and am trying to install BT4 on my /dev/sda2 with /dev/sda3 as swap. The trouble I am having is when running lilo -v ther error that I receive is

Boot other: /dev/sda1, on /dev/sda, loader CHAIN
Fatal:First sector of /dev/sda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature

Anyone have any ideas? I know the issue is probably with ubuntu 8.10 which I don't have much experience with yet.

In your case it's not necessary to install lilo. Since ubuntu 8.10 is already installed on your HD and supposing you're using common partitions, you can just define in menu.lst of GRUB to point to the kernel and root partition of BT.

Here is how I've done this:
i'm using similar scheme: eeebuntu is installed together with Backtrack.
My hdd partitioned as following:

sda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 403.04
sda2 Primary Linux ext3 24996.63
sda3 Primary Linux swap / Solaris 1998.75
sda5 Logical Linux ReiserFS 114997.64
sda6 Logical Linux ReiserFS 17643.23

when sda1 using as "/boot" (common for both eeebuntu and BT), sda2 is a "/" for eeebuntu , sda5 is a "/home" for eeebuntu (i thought it's better to do not mix the "/home"'s for the both systems ) and sda6 is "/" of Backtrack.
In that case the part of backtrack in my menu.lst looks like that:

title           BackTrack
uuid            7da555c1-295f-427e-b29c-5632e02fec90
kernel          /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 ro i8042.noloop vga=792 clocksource=hpet
initrd          /splash.initrd
quiet

[rhorhongonon]

i've downloaded the iso and burn it but it always stalled to install to hard drive, it stuck at

* Loading hardware drivers...

is there a problem to install it on sata drives?
or any other incompatible for my system?
Intel P4i65GV
P4 2,8GHz
512 mb
Nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000
Seagate ST380012ACE (ata drivers)
Maxtor STM380215AS (sata drives)
i've planned to installing it on Maxtor drive, so i can use it seperatelly, the boot will be chosen from the bios manually.

but when i install it on vmware it was running well fine, but it have some kind of error at same place

piix4_smbus 000:00:07.3: Host SMBus controller not enabled!

i don't know what was that...

[cr1spyj0nes]

Dame, im trying to install bt4 to my eeepc 1000H and when i type,
mke2fs /dev/sda1 i get this
mke2sf 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
/dev/sda1 is apparently in use by system; will not make a filesystem here!
any one hade this problem?

[Archangel-Amael]

Dame, im trying to install bt4 to my eeepc 1000H and when i type,
mke2fs /dev/sda1 i get this
mke2sf 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
/dev/sda1 is apparently in use by system; will not make a filesystem here!
any one hade this problem?

Not sure if that is a mavis beacon problem there or what, but generally this error can be one of several things. the partition is already setup and being used by the system . Or there is some data on the disk that is not allowing the disk to be reformatted properly. Or something else.
I would try to use fdisk to check if it is partitioned properly, if it is, it might be corrupted.

# fdisk /dev/sda

use 'p' to print to print table, check /dev/sda1 and see if it looks okay
You can also try to fsck it if fdisk shows it to be a valid partition.

# e2fsck -C 0 /dev/sda1

(or man e2fsck for more options).
Also you can try to reformat it.

# mke2fs -v -t ext3  /dev/sda1

(man mke2fs for more options).

[cr1spyj0nes]

still no go, i made all the partions from gparted live cd,

[Archangel-Amael]

still no go, i made all the partions from gparted live cd,

Ok this really doesn't help much, so can you show the output from the above.
As I stated above this can happen sometimes due to data not being completely removed from the drive. There might be a part of the partition that is reserved for a system restore. Since I don't have one of these newer eeepc's I am not sure.

[ang3lt]

Ok, I got my lilo.conf file. This is all installed on a USB Slimdrive. When I boot it all up I get a kernal error, and I think it's related to the warning it gives me when I run lilo -v. But first, the lilo.conf file

lba32
boot=/dev/sdb
root=/dev/sdb3
# bitmap=/boot/sarge.bmp
# bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0
# bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17
# bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0
# install=bmp
prompt
timeout=50
# map=/boot/map
vga=0x317
image=/boot/vmlinuz
      label="BT4"
      read-only
      initrd=/boot/splash.initrd
      append=quiet

When I run lilo -v, this is the output:

Reading boot sector from /dev/sdb
Warning: /dev/sdb is not on the first disk
Using MENU secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data

Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
Mapping RAM disk /boot/splash.initrd
Added BT4 *

Writing boot sector.
/boot/boot.0810 exists - no boot sector backup copy made.
One warning was issued.

Now I know the boot partition /dev/sdb1 is flagged as bootable when I go into fdisk /dev/sdb. The /dev/sdb2 partition is the swap, and the /dev/sdb3 is the root folder. This could only mean that my problem should be somewhere in the lilo.conf file, right? I'll post the fstab just in case:

/dev/sdb3 / reiserfs defaults 0 0 # AutoUpdate
/dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # AutoUpdate
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 # AutoUpdate
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 # AutoUpdate
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 # AutoUpdate

When I go to boot off the USB harddrive, it gives me this error on the backtrack bootup screen, after I selcet "BT4" from Lilo.

"Kernal panic - not syncing: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,19)"

Hi Guys!

I have exactly the same issue as Pyro01.
I also tried to install it on an external HDD but i found the same error.
Tried to search for solution but no luck here. Anyone what can be the issue?

Thanks in advance