[HELP]BackTrack won't boot after installation with USB Drive[HELP]

[Shadowman]

I created a BackTrack bootable USB thumb drive with Unetbootin. It's a 4 GB SanDisk, and the laptop is a Compaq Presario CQ60. After I complete the installation, and take out the USB drive, press enter, and reboot, nothing ever comes onto the monitor. Nothing loads at all. I'm using the 32-bit BackTrack 5 .iso image with a Gnome interface. Should I install with a DVD instead? I do not know what to do from here.

[stayfr0sty]

Since I don't know what else you've already tried I recommend you to check your settings in BIOS and make sure that USB is set as a first boot-able Device.

[krillzip]

I have the same problem, I have tried with both bt5-GNOME-32 and bt5-GNOME-64 on my ASUS 1001px, get the same result!

8 GB ZAP slider pendrive.

I following the instructions on doing a Live USB
(USB Live)

boots with that USB in my eeepc.

runs startx, works perfect.

After that runs the install.sh on the desktop. Following the instructions of (Hard Drive Install)
I do choose my locales, and entire disk partition.

Restarts the computer without USB

Up comes UNetbootin bootloader with only default option.
Loads ubnkern.
Debian installer starts automatically.

Why the wrong bootloader?


Anyone knows why?

[Deadboy]

Re-run Backtrack live from either usb or disk (disk might be better) and try this in a terminal:

 grub-install /dev/sda

If that doesn't work see this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...tallingWindows

It's a little more in-depth and detailed but should be easy to follow. And I know that you're not trying to "Recover Ubunutu After Installing Windows" but you are wanting to reinstall grub after Backtrack is installed to the hard drive. That should do it if the first suggestion doesn't work.

[krillzip]

I followed the Ubuntu manual and made a successfull grub-install.

But on reboot the debian installer and UNetBootin bootloader displayed instead.

Does the Backtrack kernel get replaced when creating the pendrive install?

the reason I use Live USB is because of no CD/DVD player.

[Deadboy]

Not that I'm aware of. I think a usb install with Unetbootin causes come confusion for grub. Once you are able to boot into Backtrack again from hard drive, try running:

 grub-install /dev/sda  && update-grub

and reboot.

[krillzip]

I do run

 grub-install --root-directory=/media/7567464567-57547-57567-567-xxx /dev/sda  && update-grub

grub-install gives no error but after that, the following comes out

/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?)

[Deadboy]

Try

 grub-install /dev/sda --recheck  && update-grub

[krillzip]

Try

 grub-install /dev/sda --recheck  && update-grub

Disregard my latest post, I forgot to see "from harddrive". Anyway I tried from harddrive and the shell wouldn't give me access to necessary partitions and commands.

[TheEquinox]

Humm i had a similar prob with the live CD can you open your bios and set your HDD to boot 1st. (do you get a blinking cursor in the top right ?)