Windows boot manager overriding tails greeter

OHNOOO · 01-28-2018, 08:02 AM

Hi,

Posting for the first time in a long while on this forum, please forgive any unintentional violation of community guidelines :P

I have burned a Tails OS ISO onto an 8 GB pen-drive (company unknown), via Windows 10 to create a live CD. However, when I try to boot from it, the Tails greeter refuses to show up, and the system just loads Windows 10 like normal.

I have verified the following:

The pen-drive is first in the boot order
The OS sys files have been copied successfully to the pen-drive

I have tried the following (to no avail):

Manually choosing to boot from the pen-drive via the BIOS
Burning onto another pen-drive (HP V220W)

Perhaps this is caused due to Windows quick-boot being enabled, but I can't be sure.

Would greatly appreciate any sort of help on this matter.

Thanks!

yancek · 01-28-2018, 08:39 PM

What method/software did you use to put Tails on the USB.

killingthemonkey · 01-28-2018, 10:45 PM

Second thing I'd look at, right after examining how I copied the ISO to the drive.

Quote:

Originally Posted by OHNOOO

Perhaps this is caused due to Windows quick-boot being enabled, but I can't be sure.

OHNOOO · 01-29-2018, 05:37 AM

@yancek I used Windows 10 to put Tails onto the USB.
@killingthemonkey could you please elaborate? I used the recommended USB burn tool (I think the name was Universal Linux something).

yancek · 01-29-2018, 07:14 AM

I'm not aware of any windows software that does this, perhaps UUI. Does the link below look familiar? Did you verify the download of the Tails iso? The second link below has an explanation of installing Tails. Particular attention to section 4/7 with troubleshooting suggestions.

https://www.pendrivelinux.com/univer...easy-as-1-2-3/

https://tails.boum.org/install/win/usb/index.en.html

OHNOOO · 01-29-2018, 08:09 AM

Yup, UUI is the software I used to burn the Tails ISO (it was the recommended option on the boum website). And, yes, I had verified the installation. What could that mean?

EDIT: The troubleshooting section's suggestions seem helpful, will report back with results when I can try them.

Rickkkk · 01-29-2018, 10:56 AM

Hi OHNOOO,

In case you haven't yet checked this:

Make sure Secure Boot is disabled on the Win10 PC
Depending on this option existing or not in your firmware, enable support for legacy BIOS on the Win10 PC.

... These steps combined with proper device boot order (which you mention you have already done), should normally permit you to boot your USB drive.

If it still doesn't work, try booting it on another PC and if still unsuccessful, you probably have a problem with the USB drive install - redo.

Cheers.