Re: backtrack iso booting from grub2

[Don deJuan <donjuansjiz@gmail.com>]

On 02/13/2012 08:40 PM, J. Bakshi wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have live usb system where I already have debian, puppy, ubuntu etc.....
> I like to boot backtrack iso from this usb drive.
>
> Here is the entry for BT5 I have added at grub.cfg
>
> ```````````````````````
> menuentry "BT-5" {
> loopback loop /BT5-KDE-64.iso
> linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz  BOOT=casper boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/BT5-KDE-64.iso  nopersistent noprompt --
> initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.gz
> }
> ```````````````````````````
>
> but grub throws errors as
>
> ```````````````````````````
> error:can't read linux header
> error:you need to load linux kernel first
> `````````````````````````
>
> Any idea what is missing here ? I have already checked the iso by mounting as loop device
> and confirmed the presence of casper/vmlinuz and casper/initrd.gz. So why is it complaining ?
>
> Thanks
Why would you not ask on backtrack forums? It is related to there mess. 
Or even better GOOGLE your issue, I got quite a few including guides to 
multi boot on USB with BT.

Hint there error is pretty obvious if you read what its telling you ;)