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9/8/09 at 11:12pm

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Alright, so I downloaded and installed Backtrack4 and burnt it to a DVD disc. Put it in my HP computer with a Pentium D, and the iso boots to a GRUB command line and I can't figure out why. No graphical interface. I looked at the How To Video and they don't get this, so... what exactly am I doing wrong? I honestly have no idea. If anyone needs a video, I will gladly record one for you.

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9/8/09 at 11:21pm

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type "startx"
hit enter
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9/8/09 at 11:41pm

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Code:

grub> startx

Error 27: Unrecognized command

grub> _

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9/9/09 at 4:15am

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Try, if you have a spare usb stick around, putting the iso on the usb pen. with "unetbootin", it looks like a bad burn but i can't be sure,
also i prefer bt3 to 4 although bt4 does boast a few improvements over bt3,

good luck

link to unetbootin : http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

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9/23/09 at 11:37am

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That is really strange. Try booting it from a liveCD. Then when you get to command line type startx.

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11/8/10 at 5:33am

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same exact crap happened to me

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11/14/10 at 2:56pm

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startx does not work on some systems...try "flux"....to start a flux box instead

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11/20/10 at 2:27pm

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I am having the exact same problem. I boot off the Backtrack 4 dvd, and instead of getting the normal boot up screen, I get a grub> command line. I tried typing 'startx' and 'flux' at the command line, but all it says is 'Error 27: Unrecognized command'.

There is a command available called 'boot', but when I type boot at the command line, it says:

grub> boot
Starting up...
Error 8: Kernel must be loaded before booting

then I tried:

grub> kernel
Error 12: Invalid device requested

grub> help kernel
kernel: kernel [--no-mem-option] [--type=TYPE] FILE [ARG ...]
Attempt to load the primary boot image from FILE. The rest of the line is passed verbatim as the "kernel command line". Any modules .....

Any ideas here? Thank you.

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11/20/10 at 2:32pm

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He is not in Linux command line, he is in GRUB command line. So Linux has not yet loaded.

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1) Hardware incompatibility, try different iso

2) bad ISO, re-download or get a different iso

since it's an iso ment for a live cd it's probably in a squashfs and so fixing it manually would be a real pain, those are the options I would do

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