Wrong file-path in sys/iso-linux
Since none of the ways I tried to make a bootable Live-USB from an BT-5R3.iso I figured my own,
which I want to share here, in case you have similar problems.
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If you are a developer of BackTrack Linux, I would like you to first do the following USB-install
1.) complete zero-out your USB-device (root: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX)
this makes sure, that we start under equal assumptions. (The reason is
that I guess if you install BT on USB following your advise on
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/...Persistent_USB
and it WORKS, then maybe there was already a previous BT installed and
you use that MBR...)
2.) install BT5R3 on that USB following
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/...Persistent_USB
(Doing this on my debian host, definitively does not work for many reasons)
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Ok...
Let install it...
1.) *Put in your USB stick
2.) *become root
3.) *check device identifier /dev/sdX
fdisk -l
4.) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=4M
*This will clear everyting, including the MBR and any partition
*or whatever. Gives us a well defined state to start
5.) fdisk /dev/sdX
a.) *First Partition
Command (m for help): n
Command (m for help): p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-522, default 1):1 <= old style ;-)
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (1-522, default 522): +3500M
b.) *Second Partition
Command (m for help): n
Command (m for help): p
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (1-522, default 1): (use default)
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (xxx, default xxx) (use default)
c.) *First Fat32
Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): c (you recomended b, but ... however)
Changed system type of partition 1 to b (W95 FAT32)
d.) *Second Linux
Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 2
Hex code (type L to list codes): 83
e.) *First Active
Command (m for help): a
Partition number (1-4): 1
f.) *write
Command (m for help): w
5.) *Format
a.) mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n BT5 /dev/sdX1
b.) mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -L casper-rw /dev/sdX2
6.) *mount backTrack.iso
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount -o loop /path_to_BT5.iso /mnt/cdrom
7.) *mount usb
mount /dev/sdX1
8.) *copy the iso image data on the usb device
cd /mnt/sdX1
rsync -r ../cdrom/* .
9.) *create syslinux folder
mkdir /syslinux
10.)*edit the .cfg file
gedit (or nano) isolinux.cfg
*I'll post the file at the end of this*
save as /syslinux/syslinux.cfg
10.)*copy your fancy ;-)
mv /isolinux/splash.png /syslinux
10.)*if our syslinux version differs from that used
in creating the live-CD vesamenu.c32 will not
work => just delate everything!
rm -r /isolinux
11.)*Find the folder containing your syslinux stuff
*On debian systems open synaptic and look for
*the installation. In my situation it is in
*/usr/share/lib
cd /usr/share/lib
*copy the needed stuff
cp vesamenu.c32 /dev/sdX1/syslinux
cp memtest /dev/sdX1/syslinux
12.)*run syslinux but with option --install
syslinux -i /dev/sdX1
13.)* Copy working MBR code into the MBR
umount /dev/sdX1
umount /dev/sdX2
dd conv=notrunc bs=440 count=1 if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sdX
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That's it...
The changed syslinux.cfg looks like the following:
(U can opy paste it without the "====")
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default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0
timeout 300
menu title BackTrack Live USB
menu background splash.png
menu color title 1;37;44 #c0ffffff #00000000 std
label DEFAULT
menu label BackTrack-Mirco Text - Default Boot Text Mode
kernel ../casper/vmlinuz
append file=../preseed/custom.seed boot=casper initrd=../casper/initrd.gz text splash vga=791--
label STEALTH
menu label BackTrack Stealth - No Networking enabled
kernel ../casper/vmlinuz
append file=../preseed/custom.seed boot=casper initrd=../casper/initrds.gz text splash staticip vga=791--
label FORENSICS
menu label BackTrack Forensics - No Drive or Swap Mount
kernel ../casper/vmlinuz
append file=../preseed/custom.seed boot=casper initrd=../casper/initrdf.gz text splash vga=791--
label BackTrack noDRM - No NVIDIA drm driver
menu label BackTrack Text - Default Boot Text Mode
kernel ../casper/vmlinuz
append file=../preseed/custom.seed boot=casper initrd=../casper/initrd.gz text splash nomodeset vga=791--
label debug
menu label BackTrack Debug - Safe Mode
kernel ../casper/vmlinuz
append file=../preseed/custom.seed boot=casper initrd=../casper/initrd.gz text--
label memtest
menu label BackTrack Memtest - Run memtest
kernel memtest
append -
label hd
menu label Hard Drive Boot - boot the first hard disk
localboot 0x80
append -
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rm '/mnt/sdb1/syslinux/isolinux.cfg~
just in case the text editor made a silent copy
path in syslinux.cfg are RELATIVE TO the folder of that file
boot.cat isn't needed ust for isolinux
