Software:
Clonezilla image of Backtrack R3 32bit
VirtualBox 4.3.12
Windows 7

Virtualbox settings:
video memory 64MB
Acceleration 3D
base memory 4096MB
Acceleration VT-x/AMD-v, PAE-NX, nested paging

Error where problem lies in Grub:
text splash vga=791

Description:
Created a Ubuntu 10.04 install on Virtual box.
Used Clonezilla to restore an image of Backtrack over it.
I launch the image and get to the grub boot menu and select Backtrack but just get a black screen.
I have the grub boot at startup with the following options which don't bring up the text mode of Backtrack i.e the CLI in order to startx
"text splash vga=791"
text splash nomodeset vga=791
text splash i915.modeset=1 vga=791

I restored the clonezilla image of Backrack to a physical hard drive on a laptop and the text splash screen appears but not in VirtualBox.

Any suggestions as all existing threads relate to problems following issuing the startx command?

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Backtrack is unsupported download & install the latest version kali linux.

I know but I have it set up with most of the tools working without special configuration
and would rather use this for the moment before using Kali.

Any suggestion on the text splash vga problem I have?

Is Ubuntu still working? If you have a working install of Ubuntu run then try booting

on the last BT5 r3
if you ran a "dist upgrade"
you killed most of the BT5 tools
the dist upgrade to ubuntu12 will fubar the bt5 install

as in that pop up that TELLS you up upgrade will kill the install

I guess I wasn't reading very well. Lets start over.
1.You cloned from a physical hdd to vbox.
Was your kernel built with all drivers or just for the machine that it was cloned fro
As far as virtualbox hdd how many partitions, because I would assume 2 partitions which would mean that your root would be at sda1 (hd0,0)

Clonezilla only cloned the 2 partitions for BT, ext4 and swap
Problem was they were mapped to sda6 and sd8 respectively
In order to install a clonezilla image with those partitions,
I had to install ubuntu and add 4 logical partitions,
sd5 (not used), sda6 (BT ext4), sda 7 (not used), sda 8 (swap)

Not straightforward but this worked as clonezilla would only restore
following these changes.

Once I boot into the BT kernel in grub the text splash does not appear
and remains a black screen.

To verify the clonezilla image, I restored the image to another hard disk
and booted into it and this worked.

The issue has to lie in the grub boot or a virtualbox setting, I think.

Can you mount the cloned hdd in Ubuntu?
If Ubuntu is still bootable then post output of lspci & lsmod.

I can connect the hard drive where the restored image works.

Note, you cannot boot into any other partition on the grub menu of the restored
clonezilla image as only the kernel and partitions for BT have been cloned.

Output of lsmod and lspci attached

Noticed the i915 in the lspci but adding that to the BT kernel at boot did not work
i915.modeset=1

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	lspci.txt (2.0 KB, 18 views)
	lsmod.txt (2.5 KB, 12 views)

Wait are these 2 files from virtualbox or your computer?
The grub image that you posted looks like the computer & the 2 files look like they come from computer.

The 2 grub screen images are taken from VirtualBox where the BT clonezilla image
was restored.

The 2 docs are from the hardrive where the clonezilla image of BT was
installed and taken from the live BT system.

I launched the BT virtualbox image and ran a Ubuntu live cd to grab the 2 docs again.

Attached Files

	lsmodVB.txt (2.1 KB, 29 views)
	lspciVB.txt (820 Bytes, 14 views)

Can you run in Vbox

Done and attached as an image.

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Which is your /?
You show 2 swap partitions.
The grub that's in VB was part of Ubuntu, was Ubuntu removed?
The UUID was that from the original system?
I would suggest recloning, all you have is an extended partition.

Install / to sda1, /swap to sda2 or sda2(extended+sda5).
Mount / from cd & edit fstab(either by UUID or /dev)
Reinstall grub.

Attached is the view of the partition space on virtualbox image.

To save on disk space I only cloned the BT partitions and not Ubuntu.

The reason I persist with this is when I restore the image to the physical disk
of another hard drive it works but not on virtualbox so it must be the kernel settings
at boot time.

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