Hi,

i had installed backtrack4 OS on my comp recently, it gives me a hell lot of a problem such as black screen after type startx,screen resoultion in a complete mess etc ,but when i installed the same copy of backtrack in my oracle virtual box it works like a charm without giving me any problem as such!please post if have got any idea on why backtrack works only on my oracle virtual box(that is when boot'd from cd) and not when i boot it directly from my hardisk? i would be really thank full towards you if you can tell me where i have gone wrong!






Kind Regards,
Manish

The virtual machine presents a very simple and well supported selection of hardware to the OS running as the guest to maximize compatibility. When running the live disc however, it is using your real hardware which is completely different and may not be supported at all.

The first thing would be to figure out what hardware you are running, and ascertain how well it is supported in Linux. Is this a prebuilt machine? What is the make and model?

hi,

here are the required info:

my computer is a assembled one!

vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 3
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 2399.101

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)

1 gb ram!


i still cant figure out why backtrack works only in virtual box and not when you boot from the hard-disk

anyone?