Netshroud Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Your image file is fragmented, so yes, it is a FAT issue. You COULD defragment your USB but that would mean moving all the files around, which would mean a dying USB faster because of all the writes. I'm not sure how bad this would impact the write cycle but I'd rather not try it because my drive is already more than a year old. I'm thinking of maybe imaging it after I have EVERYTHING I want, defragmenting the image somehow, and then rewriting it to the USB drive. What's everybody elses thoughts on this? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897428.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Hey guys, great episode. I've got my 8GB Sandisk Cruzer loaded up and I've put together a splashscreen for it, but I can't seem to get it to load properly. It loads any other .xpm.gz I put into it, just not mine :( My menu.lst is as follows: splashimage /background.xpm.gz color white/black black/white timeout 120 And a copy of my background.xpm.gz can be found here. I've set it to 14 colours in GIMP, saved as a 640x480 XPM file and then used gzip to compress it. Every other splash I've tried works, just not mine. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beelzebub311 Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I've run into the issue of Kon-Boot "detecting a dummy BIOS." I've tried just about every combination in my menu.lst, including both Mr. Castle's and Darren's, and I've redownloaded Kon-boot on 3 different computers multiple times (the .img). I've also tried running it on multiple computers. This is my current menu.lst: splashimage /automata_wall.xpm.gz color white light-grey timeout 120 title Kon-Boot-test map --mem /FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.img (fd0) map --hook chainloader (fd0)+1 map (hd1) (hd0) map --hook rootnoverify (fd0) title Ubuntu 9.10 root (hd0,0) kernel  /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw quiet splash initrd  /casper/initrd.lz title DBAN map --mem /dban.img (fd0) map --hook chainloader (fd0)+1 map (hd1) (hd0) map --hook rootnoverify (fd0) title Reboot reboot Any clue what could be wrong? Edit: Please don't hate me if I totally missed the solution to this problem in the thread, but I read the whole thing, and I couldn't find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanJeffrey Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 ... And a copy of my background.xpm.gz can be found here. ... Hi. I checked your xpm file. The color table has 15 entries instead of 14. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 I've run into the issue of Kon-Boot "detecting a dummy BIOS." I've tried just about every combination in my menu.lst, including both Mr. Castle's and Darren's, and I've redownloaded Kon-boot on 3 different computers multiple times (the .img). I've also tried running it on multiple computers. This is my current menu.lst: <snip> Any clue what could be wrong? Edit: Please don't hate me if I totally missed the solution to this problem in the thread, but I read the whole thing, and I couldn't find it. Does Kon-Boot work if you burn it to a CD or Floppy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanJeffrey Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 ... 2. I may be blind, but i really cannot find the Memtest.img, DBAN.img or freedos.img. Can anyone give me a direct link, or host them? Thanks. ... Memtest86 I could not find memtest.img anywhere. So I extracted the iso to a folder named Memtest86. Then I used this menu option (found elsewhere on this thread): title Memtest86 kernel /Memtest86/ISOLINUX/MEMTEST Note the absence of initrd or anything else but kernel. It works for me. DBAN dban.img was inside the iso from DBAN. freedos.img There is an older version in img format here: http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/ and other file info here: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/ Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
werDZiPiLE Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 atm i have ... menu.lst grldr 7201.0.090601-1516_x64fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate.iso 7201.0.090601-1516_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate.iso ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso Hiren's.BootCD.9.7.iso image.xps ... can someone tell me what i need to do to the iso's ... what i should call stuff... and what should my menu.lst have... WAITING FOR PART 2 !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 You need to extract the pertinent files, and call the kernel and initrd, or chainload something. DanJeffery: I think Darren got those .img files from Hirens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eqtitan Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 I have been waiting for this for a very long time and this will be a life saver (business saver) once everything is said and done. I bought a 16Gb USB for $20 (I can get more) and this is what I have on it so far and what I'd like to add to it if someone could help. Backtrack 4 Beta Hirens 9.9 DBAN Kon-Boot Memtest86 Ubuntu 9.04 What I'd like to add: Windows 7 (OEM waiting till Aug. 6th for release) Windows Vista SP2 Windows XP Home/Pro SP3 AntiVirus (of some sort) SS&D CCleaner Some sort of Password changer/bypass since kon-boot does not always work OOffice not sure if it can be installed from DOS Assorted programs for new Computers DVD/AntiVirus I'm guessing the windows are going to be as simple as Slipstreaming making the .iso and setting it up as such title Windows 'x' (64b) map (hd0,0)/(win_name).iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Hi. I checked your xpm file. The color table has 15 entries instead of 14. I tried re-saving the file in GIMP again and selecting Mode > Indexed > 14 colours. Saved as XPM, gzipped and still nothing. So then I tried the same again after selecting 13 colours, to see if that helps, and still nothing. What am I doing wrong? :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 GIMP under Windows, or GIMP under Linux? ------- I tried Ophcrack, but it threw a segmentation fault at me whenever it started loading the tables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 GIMP under Windows, or GIMP under Linux? ------- I tried Ophcrack, but it threw a segmentation fault at me whenever it started loading the tables. Were the tables downloaded separately? I'd check the MD5s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 I extracted the tables from the ISO. I should check the MD5s though. edit: XP ISO MD5 is fine, Vista ISO is borked. But when loading either tables, it segfaults. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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reliam Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 If anyone wants it here is a screen capture of Milla with the multipass in The Fifth Element converted to be used as a splashimage http://files.getdropbox.com/u/628316/multipass.xpm.gz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reliam Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 2. I may be blind, but i really cannot find the Memtest.img, DBAN.img or freedos.img. Can anyone give me a direct link, or host them? Thanks. They are included in the System Rescue CD ISO under the bootdisk folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 I knew it was one of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hretsam Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 ... can someone tell me what i need to do to the iso's ... what i should call stuff... and what should my menu.lst have... just rename the iso's to something easy like windows 7 64 bits i call win764.iso I have been waiting for this for a very long time and this will be a life saver (business saver) once everything is said and done. I bought a 16Gb USB for $20 (I can get more) and this is what I have on it so far and what I'd like to add to it if someone could help. What I'd like to add: Windows 7 (OEM waiting till Aug. 6th for release) Windows Vista SP2 Windows XP Home/Pro SP3 AntiVirus (of some sort) SS&D CCleaner Some sort of Password changer/bypass since kon-boot does not always work OOffice not sure if it can be installed from DOS Assorted programs for new Computers DVD/AntiVirus I'm guessing the windows are going to be as simple as Slipstreaming making the .iso and setting it up as such title Windows 'x' (64b) map (hd0,0)/(win_name).iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) windows versions are easy, just make the iso and put it on your drive, openoffice cant be installed from dos, as far is i know it needs a OS, an program same as kon-boot is NTpasswd check this thread how to install, as for an anti-virus Avast got the Bart-Cd a bootable Anti-Virus, cost $40 i thought... 2. I may be blind, but i really cannot find the Memtest.img, DBAN.img or freedos.img. Can anyone give me a direct link, or host them? Thanks. Memtest i dunno, never used it... DBAN Freedos as for freedos just download the .iso, and use this command and it should work...: (works fine here) title Freedos map (hd0,0)/freedos.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurtcake Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 How to get Trinity Rescue Kit up and running 1. Copy the TRK ISO contents to the "Root" of your USB Stick 2. Rename your USB stick to "TRK_3-3" without quotes... if you do not do this it will give you the error that it cannot find the CD etc. 3. Add this to your "menu.lst" title Trinity Rescue Kit configfile /submenu.lst 4. Create another list file called "submenu.lst" and add this to it. Note: You dont need them all just the ones you want to use or if you only want a couple you can just add them to your menu.lst instead. Does that work for you? I still get the error loading the libraries i described in an earlier post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reliam Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Does that work for you? I still get the error loading the libraries i described in an earlier post. I was getting the cannot find CD or USB error until I renamed the USB Stick to TRK_3-3 then it started to load but had a ton of errors about missing libraries or something cant remember the exact errors but I think it was gettext that was the root of the problem. These were caused by me having the TRK files in a sub-directory... so I put the files directly on the root of the drive and it booted up just fine. Edit: Tried it again on a different USB stick from the start and it worked without a hitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zain Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 I have a drive with BT4 pre final that i installed with unetbootin. it basically made it into a boot-able grub launcher from the iso extracted and every thing stated above.(so far only did this to BT4) Only problem is you have to combine them all which i have yet to try. it does give you the menu.lts items. # By default, boot the first entry. default 0 # Boot automatically after 30 secs. timeout 30 splashimage=/boot/grub/bt4.xpm.gz title                Start BackTrack FrameBuffer (1024x768) kernel                /boot/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper nopersistent rw quiet vga=0x317 initrd                /boot/initrd.gz title                Start BackTrack FrameBuffer (800x600) kernel                /boot/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper nopersistent rw quiet vga=0x314 initrd                /boot/initrd800.gz title                Start BackTrack Forensics (no swap) kernel                /boot/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper nopersistent rw vga=0x317 initrd                /boot/initrdfr.gz title                Start BackTrack in Safe Graphical Mode kernel                /boot/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper xforcevesa rw quiet initrd                /boot/initrd.gz title                Start Persistent Live CD kernel                /boot/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper persistent rw quiet initrd                /boot/initrd.gz title                Start BackTrack in Text Mode kernel                /boot/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper nopersistent textonly rw quiet initrd                /boot/initrd.gz title                Start BackTrack Graphical Mode from RAM kernel                /boot/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper toram nopersistent rw quiet initrd                /boot/initrd.gz title                Memory Test kernel                /boot/memtest86+.bin title                Boot the First Hard Disk root                (hd0) chainloader +1 i will try with trinity to see if it runs then try to merge them and probably fail my drive list F:\ |  ubnkern |  ubninit |  ubnpathl.txt |  boot.catalog |  md5sum.txt |  ubnfilel.txt |  syslinux.cfg |  vesamenu.c32 | +---boot |  |  bootsplash |  |  initrd.gz |  |  initrd800.gz |  |  initrdfr.gz |  |  memtest86+.bin |  |  vmlinuz |  | |  \---grub |          bt4.xpm.gz |          menu.lst |          stage2_eltorito | \---casper         filesystem.manifest         filesystem.manifest-desktop         filesystem.squashfs it only did grub for bt4. i dont know what it did to trinity. F:\ |  ubnkern |  ubninit |  ubnpathl.txt |  AUTORUN.INF |  boot.cat |  bootlogo.jpg |  disableautorun.exe |  initrd.trk |  isolinux.bin |  isolinux.cfg |  kernel.trk |  memdisk |  memtest.x86 |  pxelinux.0 |  trinity.ico |  ubnfilel.txt |  syslinux.cfg |  vesamenu.c32 | +---pxelinux.cfg \---trk3     |  mkpxelinux     |  syslinux     |  syslinux.exe     |  trkramfs     |  trspack-1_0.exe     |  trsrun-1_0-nq.exe     |  trsrun-1_0.exe     |     +---captive     \---clamdb             daily.cvd             main.cvd It ran till it couldn't find the TRK medium. if you had it on cd it looks there but other than that it wont work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurtcake Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 @Reliom Ok i will try. I'm getting this error when im trying to boot Gparted, System Rescue Cd or Clonezilla "utf8 not a recommended IO charset for FAT, filesystem will be case-sensitive" Can't seem to get it working Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reliam Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Going to try this one more time... First off I said if you don't get BT4 running the normal route I.E. follow Hak5 directions to setup the USB then follow mine... you should try to unetbootin the files because that is what I did just messing around I wasn't sure if it modified anything.... I just redid everything from scratch no unetbootin and it worked so scrap your unet setup and start over. So to recap... Follow Hak5 directions.. 1. PeToUSB 2. Grub Install 1.0.1 3. Copy grldr to USB 4. Create a menu.lst Then for BT4 1. Copy the BT4 ISO contents to your USB 2. Rename your boot folder from boot to bootbt4 3. Add this to your menu.lst title BackTrack 4 Pre-final root (hd0,0) kernel /bootbt4/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper persistent vga=0x317 ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet initrd=/bootbt4/initrd.gz boot 4. Download or create a casper.rw here is where you can download some large ones... http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to...ubuntu-904.html 5. Extract it to your USB root As far as TRK 3.3 goes 1. Copy the contents of the ISO to the root of your USB drive 2. RENAME YOUR USB TO "TRK_3-3" 3. Add this to your menu.lst title Trinity Rescue Kit configfile /submenu.lst 4. Create submenu.lst and add this to it title Main-menu configfile /menu.lst title TRK 3.3 kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - as bootserver to boot other TRK clients kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 trkbootnet initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - running from RAM (best >= 512mb, 256mb min) kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 trkinmem initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - with bigger screenfont kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 normalfont initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - in simple VGA mode (debugging of kernel output) kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=1 pci=conf1 splash=off initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - with Belgian keyboard (see docs for other) kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 keyb_be initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - Virusscan all drives (non interactive) kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 virusscan initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - Try more pcmcia and usb nics (when not detected) kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 pcmcia initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - Try more SCSI drivers (when disks not detected) kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 scsidrv initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - with a secure shell server enabled kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 sshd initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - Execute local scripts on harddrive of PC kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 locscr initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - Fileshare all drives, secured with user kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 smbsec initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - Fileshare all drives as guest, no security kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 smbguest initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - Single user mode kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 runlevel 1 initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - Acpi=off, noapic PCI=bios (Alternate boot 1) kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose acpi=off noapic pci=bios initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - Acpi=off, noapic PCI=any (Alternate boot 2) kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose acpi=off noapic initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - PCI=conf2 (Alternate boot 3) kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf2 initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - Verbose startup for debugging after initial bootfase kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 debugging initrd /initrd.trk timeout 100 title TRK 3.3 - SSH server and run from RAM kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 sshd trkinmem initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - SSH server, run from RAM, act as a secure fileserver kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 sshd trkinmem smbsec initrd /initrd.trk title TRK 3.3 - with proxyserver support enabled kernel /kernel.trk ramdisk_size=49152 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 splash=verbose pci=conf1 proxy initrd /initrd.trk title Memory tester: Memtest86+ v1.65 kernel memtest.x86 5. If you want an updated TRK you need another USB with TRK on it via trk2usb then you update that one via updatetrk and copy those files over to your multipass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRoSTY Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Well I've been trying to get GRUB installed on several usb disks and simply can't seem to get it working. I have followed the instructions perfectly but all that happens is a flashing '_' in the top corner... so I am now looking at using GRUB 2 (1.96) So shout out who's got GRUB 2 working on a USB Flash key, if you have could you please explain/show what you did ?? Bumperz ??? I've tried to create a GRUB 2 MBR from Ubuntu 9.10 already running the GRUB2 loader but it won't allow the creation of a MBR other than on a HD like HD0. So any help appreciated. I wonder if it is possible to rip the MBR from my Ubuntu 9.10 box and then write to the USB stick... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reliam Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Well I've been trying to get GRUB installed on several usb disks and simply can't seem to get it working. I have followed the instructions perfectly but all that happens is a flashing '_' in the top corner... so I am now looking at using GRUB 2 (1.96) So shout out who's got GRUB 2 working on a USB Flash key, if you have could you please explain/show what you did ?? Bumperz ??? I've tried to create a GRUB 2 MBR from Ubuntu 9.10 already running the GRUB2 loader but it won't allow the creation of a MBR other than on a HD like HD0. So any help appreciated. I wonder if it is possible to rip the MBR from my Ubuntu 9.10 box and then write to the USB stick... Is your computer capable of booting off USB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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