Scenario: Live CD boot without problem in qemu, but boot failed in a real machine with ext4 filesystem in local hard drive. The boot failed because of the following error: Ext3fs: sdaX: unsupported optional features: (240) root filesystem is not mounted and the boot sequence either fell into an infinite loop displaying the error or into busybox. Explaination I first encountered this error years ago in clonezilla Live CD, as I choose a new version of the Live CD image, the problem was gone. This time, I encountered this error again with BackTrack 4 Live CD Image. However, BackTrack Linux doesn't have a release roadmap and even if it does, the problem is not likely to be fixed since there is a workaround for it. As I insists in keeping my live usb layout neat, I decided to fix it myself.