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	<p><small>(by Phill)</small></p>
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I just installed backtrack five on a new computer installation I just made.
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Unfortunately on first boot it seems like it hangs at &quot;Loading Operating System&quot; indefinitely [After loading the BIOS]. I'm wondering if I forgot something straight up stupid.
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Hardware:<br />GIGABYTE GA-M68MT-S2 AM3+ NVIDIA GeForce 7025/nForce 630a chipset Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
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HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000.D HDS721075DLE630 (0F13179) 750GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5&quot; Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
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Corsair XMS3 8 GB (2 x 4GB) 1333 MHz PC3-10666 240-Pin DDR3 Memory Kit CMX8GX3M2A1333C9
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AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Processor, Black Edition (HDT90ZFBGRBOX)
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Also, I partitioned my drives in the following fashion...<br />/boot<br />/<br />/home
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using the partitioner in backtrack's installer. I don't recall it asking me to set anything with a bootable flag, I think fdisk did require this in the past? It's been many years since m...
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