booting issues

[raaki_88]

hello friends
after going through usb stick and hell i was finally able to boot to backtrack

from then on when i installed through gui or dual boot or any other given way nothig really happened forget about dual boot not even single boot was available

and i was gifted with the following screeen

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L 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07
07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 \
07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 \
07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07

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now i have installed properly both xp and backtrack where is this going wrong

and second thing is

from usb stick i was able to turn off

noapic and acpi=off

if at all by any luck of heavens if i get even single boot backtrack

where should i turn off this apic and acpi=off options

thank you
raki

[ACIDPHYX]

I have had the same or similar issue and i found it was due to corruption with my MBR.

What i had todo was Reformat my drive to fix the MBR and then I partitioned my Drive something like this: (The Sizes are not to important)

/sda1 (BT3 Root Partition) Mount Point / File System = EXT3
/sda2 (BT3 Swap Partition)
/sda3 (Windows Partition) C: File System NTFS
/sda4 (Spare Data Paritition) D: File System FAT32

I prepartitioned and preformatted the HDD because i hate the way windows Setup deals with paritioning. Then i installed XP SP2 to /sda3 and that then fixed the MBR and set it to boot Windows.

Once i had windows installed and drivers done. I booted BT3 from USB Stick and ran GUI installer and installed to /sda1 and wrote the MBR to /sda I told the GUI not to Restore Original MBR after install. That way it uses the LILO Boot Manager

Then of course once i rebooted i only had BT boot option and i loaded into BT3 and went to the shell from ~ and ran
nano /etc/lilo.conf

and at the end i added

other = /dev/sda3
label = Windows
table = /dev/sda

saved the lilo.conf file and when i was back at shell i ran

lilo -v

as long as you get no erros on that command you should be good.
You might get 1 or two warnings about the LBA being to big but thats cool.

I hope that helps man.