jdogherman Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Got BT3 and 4 working. Hiren's boot cd doesnt like me though. Anyone got this going? And if anyone understand this http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8371 please let me know :) Hurtcake: I got Hiren's Happy. Using v9.7 Just extracted it to my folder and used: title Start Hiren's BootCD find --set-root /multiboot/hirens/HBCD/boot.gz map --mem /multiboot/hirens/HBCD/boot.gz (fd0) map --hook chainloader (fd0)+1 rootnoverify (fd0) map --floppies=1 boot Remember to change to the correct directory (mine is /multiboot/hirens/HBCD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coreyja Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Has anybody thought of making 2 partitions on a flash drive. One for the multiboot and one for everyday files. This would work great for me but dont no if it will work. Any idea? i might just try and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdogherman Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Coreyja: That wouldn't be a problem with most drives but my question is why? What I did for organizing is push all these files to /multiboot/(boot file). That way I have the minimal amount of clutter in my 16 Gig flash drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurtcake Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 @jdogherman Thanks. Works now. Wierd thoug, didnt change much. Im testing most of this in WMWare, that may have caused the problem. And try downloading BT4 beta instead of pre, think i had some issues with that release as well. @Coreuyja that should work. Will try myself, once i get a bigger usb-drive. Better get one tomorrow :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdogherman Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 BTW I got memtest86 working FYI Open memtest86 (link) extract to folder Edit menu.lst title Memtest86 kernel /multiboot/memtest86/ISOLINUX/MEMTEST Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coreyja Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Coreyja: That wouldn't be a problem with most drives but my question is why? What I did for organizing is push all these files to /multiboot/(boot file). That way I have the minimal amount of clutter in my 16 Gig flash drive i thought of something like that at first but thought you needed all of the boot stuff in the root directory. since you dont i will try the same thing. should be easier than doing partitions. thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdogherman Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Coreyja: You need to have 2 files in the root. menu.lst and grldr and then I have a folder with all the subfolders containing the boot directories and junk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coreyja Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 jdogherman: Thanks for the tips! Im going to start on all of this now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coreyja Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 has anybody got a "BT4 data not found" error when they try and boot BT4? for me it happens when you see the BT4 boot screen and everything is starting. it says it cant find the livecd.sgn file which i have and tells me to shutdown the computer. any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyWanderer Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Great episode! Just ordered my usb sticks, will start collecting all stuff ill put on, and hopefully get it working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurtcake Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I almost got Trinity working, its just beeing pain right now. Got it booting, but it cant seem to find the usb its booting from.. I mounted the trinity rescue iso in WMWare and installed it to another usb i had laying around. I then copied the files over to my multiboot usb, and added this in menu.lst title Trinity Rescue Kit find --set-root /multiboot/trinity/initrd.trk kernel /multiboot/trinity/kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 initrd /multiboot/trinity/initrd.trk but all i get is this error http://files.getdropbox.com/u/573882/Trinity-boot.jpg Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdogherman Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 has anybody got a "BT4 data not found" error when they try and boot BT4? for me it happens when you see the BT4 boot screen and everything is starting. it says it cant find the livecd.sgn file which i have and tells me to shutdown the computer. any ideas? The issue is that the initrd is not able to find the BT4 Directory in the sub directory I put it in. (I'm working on a fix, let you know if I find one) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haxwithaxe Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I'm assuming this is for Linux? How do I Mix a windows and a Linux ISO? :D see the grub docs for how to boot windows(as in hard drive) and i'm betting that you can just chainload the boot directory as if it were an installed copy of windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war10ck216 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 hey guys, great video from the Hak5 team. i got all my linux systems on my usb. thanx finally. It's pretty awesome to get BackTrack 4 pre-final installed. (Yes, i got it installed.) Well thanx again and keep up the good work. :P UPDATE: trying to get persistant changes to work UPDATE2: i got persistant changes to work on my usb drive but you have to make another partition on your usb drive using linux and formating it to ext3. Then you have to change kernel line from the menu.lst from nopersistant to persistant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdogherman Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 war10ck216: How did you get PreFinal working? Share the steps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdogherman Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I almost got Trinity working, its just beeing pain right now. Got it booting, but it cant seem to find the usb its booting from.. I mounted the trinity rescue iso in WMWare and installed it to another usb i had laying around. I then copied the files over to my multiboot usb, and added this in menu.lst title Trinity Rescue Kit find --set-root /multiboot/trinity/initrd.trk kernel /multiboot/trinity/kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 initrd /multiboot/trinity/initrd.trk but all i get is this error http://files.getdropbox.com/u/573882/Trinity-boot.jpg Any ideas? I think this is the same issue as I am having with BTbeta4. The initrd is not able to find the filesystem. I was trying to think of a way to (s)link the directory to the root but fat32 does not support (s)links. Maybe someone can make a fake file that redirects to the correct directory. (needs more searching and poking) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumperz Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Viewer Feedback; Ideas for a follow up episode; Part II USB Stick Multiboot; 1. How in include large DVD images; i.e. 4681940992 debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso 2. How to use grub/grub4dos to chain to another logical partition for booting extracted .iso live CD/DVD 3. How to 'manually' prepare the USB in Windows & Linux i.e. MBR (Syslinux or other), Set active, File system choices ... just in case an automatic tool doesn't work (petousb failed on me, 'disk dismount failure', V3.0.0.8_GER (German Version) & 3.0.0.7) 4. Please mention if you are using tools in Windows which services need to run to allow the tool you are demonstrating to fully function. I've experienced this in a prior episode where system requirements for the tool are not completely mentioned, resulting in either a failure or incomplete results. 5. How to manually configure persistance for various Live CD/DVD boot distros to retain changes. Thank you very much for your fantastic episodes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beakmyn Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 @Darren About the whole motorcycle thing. Because you're on bike and you're smaller the human brain doesn't perceive you as a "threat" and basically blocks you out. It's a weird thing. Same then happened to my brother and father-in-law. In fact with my father-in-law the lady looked right at him and then proceeded to to plow right into him. She even said "I saw you but I don't know why I didn't stop" With me brother the guy turned right from the left lane and luckily my brother was kick and just basically jumped off the bike, did a tuck and roll and let the bike get pinned under the guy's car. Good thing you were wearing a helmet (it's optional where you live?). Insurance will pay for a new helmet to so don't even thing about using the old one it's not worth it. I've seen ones that where they were barely scratched then they get dropped and literally split in half. Glad you're ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0xCD5 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Alright, I just set this up and I'm having a few issues I'm wondering if anyone else has come across. I'm experimenting with it but in the meantime I'd appreciate any input :) Firstly, I tried to install: BackTrack 3 Kon-Boot Hiren's BootCD ntpasswd DBAN FreeDOS Memtest86 This is my menu.lst: color red/black black/red timeout 120 title BackTrack 3 root (hd0,0) kernel /bootbt3/vmlinuz vga=0x317 ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet initrd=/bootbt3/initrd.gz boot title Kon-Boot map --mem /FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.img (fd0) map --hook chainloader (fd0)+1 map (hd1) (hd0) map --hook rootnoverify (fd0) title Hiren's BootCD find --set-root /hirens/HBCD/boot.gz map --mem /hirens/HBCD/boot.gz (fd0) map --hook chainloader (fd0)+1 rootnoverify (fd0) map --floppies=1 boot title Offline NT Passwd Reset kernel /ntpasswd/vmlinuz rw vga=1 initrd=/ntpasswd/initrd.cgz /ntpasswd/scsi.cgz initrd /ntpasswd/initrd.cgz title DBAN kernel /memdisk initrd /dban.img title FreeDOS root (hd0,2) kernel /memdisk initrd /freedos.img floppy title Memtest86 kernel /memtest/ISOLINUX/MEMTEST And this is my folder structure for the USB drive: +---bootbt3 ¦  +---dos ¦  +---isolinux ¦  +---syslinux +---BT3 ¦  +---base ¦  +---modules ¦  +---optional ¦  +---rootcopy ¦  +---tools ¦      +---WIN +---ntpasswd +---memtest ¦  +---ISOLINUX +---hirens     +---HBCD         +---Vdefs         +---WinTools             +---files In that root drive folder I have: grldr menu.lst memdisk FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.img dban.img freedos.img Now I'm having the following issues: ntpasswd - No disk drivers found (boots okay, program doesn't work) FreeDOS - Grub error: Partition not found Hiren's - "Cannot find HBCD folder" error when I try to start any app (boots okay) BackTrack 3 - Grub loads it okay, but it's just a black screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I don't have a name Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 For those of you in the market for a big SanDisk flash drive, it looks like office max is having a sale. http://www.officemax.com/technology/drives...sb-flash-drives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrooloose Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Sam's Club has the Toshiba 16gb for 29.84 pickup http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate....amp;item=419881 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 This looks interesting - directly booting an ISO from Grub2. I had to modify the initrd.gz in Ubuntu so it would boot from a usb (http://www.kazbak.co.uk/drupal/blog/technical/how-boot-a-linux-livecd-usb) and you might need to do the same for BT4. BT3 works fine for me without doing that, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0xCD5 Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 This looks interesting - directly booting an ISO from Grub2. I had to modify the initrd.gz in Ubuntu so it would boot from a usb (http://www.kazbak.co.uk/drupal/blog/technical/how-boot-a-linux-livecd-usb) and you might need to do the same for BT4. BT3 works fine for me without doing that, though. What grub settings did you use for BT3? The ones from BT4b that Darren posted aren't working for my BT3 (see above). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 title BackTrack 3 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/boot.bt3/vmlinuz vga=0x317 ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet initrd=/boot/boot.bt3/initrd.gz boot I'll try and see if the root (hd0,0) is even needed. Guess where my BT3 /boot folder is? ;) Anyone know if BT4 Pre-Final and Ubuntu can run off the one USB? They both use Casper, and need /casper for the squashfs filesystem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0xCD5 Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 title BackTrack 3 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/boot.bt3/vmlinuz vga=0x317 ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet initrd=/boot/boot.bt3/initrd.gz boot I'll try and see if the root (hd0,0) is even needed. Guess where my BT3 /boot folder is? ;) Anyone know if BT4 Pre-Final and Ubuntu can run off the one USB? They both use Casper, and need /casper for the squashfs filesystem. Hm, that's what I have in my menu file (with a different boot directory) and Grub opens it fine, but before anything happens I just get a black screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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