Error when booting off the LiveCD

[agentunix]

Hi,

When I boot off the BackTrack 2.0 Final CD I get as far as init going multi-user, but fail to receive a shell. reset: unknown terminal type 'linux' is displayed several times, and then I get a prompt 'Terminal Type?', but nothing I can think of works(console, unknown, linux, vt100, ansi).

I never had this trouble with BackTrack 2.0 Beta, strangely enough. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, any ideas?

[jonface]

I've got the same problem. But just as I was posting this, I tried ansi and it worked. Weird.



EDIT: Rebooted and ansi won't work anymore. Confused++ .

[agentunix]

Hmm, typing ansi doesn't work at all for me, the md5 is ok on the iso, but I'm re-downloading/re-burning just to be sure.

[jonface]

I burnt the cd with K3b and verified it and it was fine. The MD5 hash was also correct. The cd works in another laptop fine.

I think this laptop is buggered so I'm gonna check the ram and hd. I'll let you know if it is that.

Jon.

[agentunix]

Oh well, I'm running Back|Track as a virtual machine under VMWare for now. Although if anyone else has had this problem and found a solution to it, I'd like to know, as BT 2 Beta boots fine for me, but not final.

[jonface]

Checked ram and hd in the laptop and its fine :/

You might want to PM a mod and ask the title be changed to something more descriptive like "Unknown terminal type" and hopefully someone who knows whats going on will reply.

Till next time.

[ghaze]

It sounds like a bad burn. There is a script at
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm that you can use to do a bit for bit verification of your burn called rawread. It's about a quarter of the way down. It can md5sum the cd using isoinfo and dd. If the md5sum of the disk matches the md5sum of the iso, you've got a good burn. If not, you can have problems like you are describing.

I believe k3b verifies by comparing files. This doesn't take into account padding errors or funny media. If rawread returns the same md5sum, you've got an exact copy.

In the past, I've had problems with various cdrw media, particularly high speed ones. They would verify fine in k3b, but give me irregular errors during use. Without an exception, every one of these disks failed the rawread test.

Give it a try.

[jonface]

I was hoping that you would be right and the md5's wouldn't match BUT they do (and its the correct md5 ;) ).

So it's a good burn. Anymore ideas let me know.

Thanks anyway for trying.

Jon.

[Baxter]

im not exactly sure what the problem could be but yesterday when my friend tried to boot off my disk. he had the same problem as you, and it boots on my laptop ok. he doesnt have any problems with his brand of cd's. maybe try a different brand cd. i dont know if that would work but BT2 wont boot up using HP cd's on my friends laptop but it will with some other cheaper brand.

[jonface]

Solved!

Like you said I reburnt the CD, this time though at 4x and different CDRs (Verbatim).

Thanks pal!