Bt4 Drops To Busybox After Editing Casper Script

[Charles]

Hi,

I tried changing the location of the casper folder using the script by H@L0_F00 here: http://hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=15600

Unfortunately, it looks like the path is correct, but all I get after booting off it is an error then drop to shell.

I don't know if my menu.lst entry is correct or not, since the path to casper is: /multipass/bt4-final/casper

title Start BackTrack FrameBuffer (1024x768)
kernel /multipass/BT4-final/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper nopersistent rw quiet vga=0x317
initrd /multipass/BT4-final/initrd.gz

Any help is appreciated since I want to have both BT4 Final and BT4 R1 on my multipass.

Thanks.

Edited August 6, 2010 by Charles

[H@L0_F00]

Which errors do you get?

Remove "quiet" from the kernel options to get more information as to what is going on.

Edited August 7, 2010 by H@L0_F00

[Charles]

Tried booting without the quiet option.

VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(8,1)

Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the partitions:

hda1 ide-ge

hdb1 ide-ge

hdc - cdrom

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)

Pid:1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30.9 #1

There is no listing for the thumb drive.

I don't know if I screwed up something when I modified the scripts or what.

Edited August 7, 2010 by Charles

[Charles]

Well, I messed with some of the kernel options and got it to error out at:

Warning: unable to open initial console.

Failed to execute /multipass/bt4final/initrd.gz. Attempting defaults.

Kernel Panic - not syncing: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

EDIT: Same error occurs after recreating initrd*.gz and messing with the path.

Any ideas?

EDIT2: I replaced the new initrd800.gz with the original initrd800.gz (with casper at the root of the drive) and it booted fine.

Is there a reason that it's not able to load the new initrd.gz file?

Edited August 10, 2010 by Charles

[Mr-Protocol]

Why have BT4 Final and BT4 R1? You should just stick with R1

[Charles]

Meh, either/or.

Anyhow, I got it to work by adding the CASPERPATH option to initrd: http://www.hak5.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t14346.html

That should work for anything that uses casper on the root.

Edited August 11, 2010 by Charles