Booting BackTrack

When you first boot from the BackTrack CD or from the ISO with VMWare, you’ll come up to this prompt:

ISOLINUX 3.36 2007-02-10  Copyright (C) 1994-2007 H. Peter Anvan
boot:

If you wait long enough at this screen, BackTrack will eventually boot. You can immediately start the boot process by typing bt, or just by pressing ENTER. Later we’ll document the “cheat codes” you can type in here and the optional modules you can load from this prompt. After the boot sequence finishes, you’ll be presented with the default login page, shown in Figure 5-2.

Figure 5-2. BackTrack login screen

Login (root | toor), xconf ...

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