stlsaint Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 I have backtrack4 on usb and this entry on grub: title BackTrack 4 root (hd0,0) kernel /multiboot/backtrack/bootbt4/vmlinuz boot=casper ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet initrd=/multiboot/backtrack/bootbt4/initrd.gz boot But everytime i boot into it i get a repeating error saying: EXT3-fs:Couldnt mount because of unsupported optional features (240). This error continues to repeat until i reboot my system. It literally just repeats itself filling up my screen. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niros Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 Curiously I have encountered the same problem, only with BT4 final and BT4 Pre, it works fine with BT4 Beta although I do get an error which is similar to the EXT3-fs one noted by stlsaint during the mounting of local filesystems It seems to be caused by having an EXT4+ file system, its strange that it seems to boot fine in older versions, by just ignoring the partitions it doesn't understand Does anyone know of any boot options that would tell BT4 to not mount any other drives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niros Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 I can confirm it's a problem related to other partitions, I took the hard drive out of my Samsung NC10 and BT4 Final booted fine. On the drive I have Ubuntu 10.04 (Upgraded from 9.10) so I think its on the EXT4-FS As well as Windows 7 & Memtest, I can't see those guys causing the problem though Going to have a look in GParted to see if there is anything unusual about Ubuntu's filesystem If only my BIOS had the option to disable the HDD (Removing from boot order doesn't change anything) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niros Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 With my current setup I have /dev/sda1 (ntfs) System Reserved (Windows 7 boot files by the looks of things) /dev/sda2 (ntfs) No tags, just the normal data files for Windows 7 /dev/sda3 (Extended) /dev/sda5 (ext4) Ubuntu 10.04 root /dev/sda6 (linux-swap) Ubuntu swap My error is exactally EXT-fs: sda5: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240)... wait a minute... Leave it long enough and it seems to boot anyway Wow I feel silly right now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niros Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 Fix for this problem: Stop being so damned impatient and wait a minute It sorts itself out after a while, It threw me with the error coming up so much earlier than in BT4 Beta Ahh well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 I would think look around the backtrack-linux.org forums for a solution... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteTiger Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 title BackTrack 4 R1 ***When It Stops Loading Type startx Hit Enter*** : ) find --set-root /bootbt/vmlinuz kernel /bootbt/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper persistent rw splash initrd /bootbt/initrd.gz boot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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