BT4 R1 Wont Boot

[BaitMaster]

I have bt4 installed on my hdd on my laptop everything works great,

but when i go to boot the bt4 r1 dvd it will keep trying to mount the root filesystem until it finally goes into a busybox shell..

Ive been trying to solve the problem but i havnt found anything that works

Thank you

[macphail]

wow... original. not to mention detailed. you rock.

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...-checking.html

or even better:
Advanced Search - BackTrack Forums

seriously... just a LITTLE effort in the future, k?

[BaitMaster]

The md5 checks out (first thing i checked), i did search every damn post about this problem and none of the threads had a solution that worked

[macphail]

Ive been trying to solve the problem but i havnt found anything that works

well, let me fire up my crystal ball and give you a proper answer like I should have done from the beginning then, neh?

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just searching this site for "boot busybox" gives me 4 pages of results...4 pages. a total of 98 separate threads. assuming that you weren't being just a 'bit' dramatic and actually did search "every damn post about this problem", then I would say you have yourself a no-win scenario here. of course, i'm sure that you have also searched the entire internet for this same issue (google reported about 91,700 results for "boot busybox error", which it happily fed me in 0.2 seconds).

i'm not saying that nobody will help you, understand. what i am saying is that without giving us quite a bit of information about hardware involved, steps attempted to resolve, results of those steps (if any) with any relevant error messages, log entries, etc.... your chances of getting any of us to care half a frak is limited at best. you really need to convince us that you are serious enough to help yourself first.

good luck with that...

[lokschmidt]

have you tried booting the dvd in other computer maybe the physcal media is the problem?

[BaitMaster]

Yeah it boots fine on my win 7 comp

i just think its weird that backtrack 4 boots fine on my laptop but when i try to boot backtrack 4 r1 it fails.