Comments on: Backtrack 4 – Bootable USB Thumb Drive with “Full” Disk Encryption

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:44:48 +0000

Hi,

I did the installation, but now I have some problems with booting.
Got grub> command line. Trying with grub-install but the same result.
What now?

Thanks in advance,
Ted

By: JF

JF — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:11:19 +0000

So I had this working perfectly for months (using the first method). I have updated the kernel etc with apt-get and all worked fine. A few days ago I booted this with VMware and installed the VMware tools - they installed fine once I made sure the kernel headers were in place, problem is now it won't boot. I get the following and then it drops in to a useless ramfs shell.

Alert! /dev/mapper/vg-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!!

I've unlocked and mounted the volume using a debian live-cd, have then chrooted and uninstalled VMware tools but it's still broken. Pretty sure it's something to to with the initramfs boot image but I have no idea how to fix it - help please!

JF.

By: Emohz

Emohz — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:40:37 +0000

Question, would this work only for thumb drives or does this apply to portable HDD as well?

By: eric

eric — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:03:41 +0000

Hello,

I have a strange problem. I installed BT5 using this great guide. I worked several times with it. Now it don't boot any more.

The BT image appears, then after some time

[code]
Alert! /dev/mapper/vg-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
[/code]

this shell, of course is useless (no real commands) .. so I looked at it from my debian notebook:

[code]
vgscan
vgchange -ay vg
lvs
mount /dev/vg/root /mnt/somepoint -o ro,user
[/code]

and I have acces. Which tells me that the system is not corrupt.

What can I doto make BT boot again? Any hints? I'am desperate.

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By: dalamarek

dalamarek — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:49:15 +0000

But as i mentioned the same problem i have with bt4 and bt4r2.

By: paul

paul — Sun, 29 May 2011 23:45:55 +0000

i need this

By: kriggins

kriggins — Wed, 18 May 2011 12:06:45 +0000

@dalamerek,

I suggest you use the Backtrack 5 how-to.

Kevin