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Teddy1902 06-24-2016 12:19 PM

kali linux live boot having problems with boot
 
So hey guys im pretty new in this and well i had a friend that knows a lot about boot and live boot.he teached me how to live boot from my sd card and exetera.so everytime i want to live boot kali linux i press f9 and it sends me to the boot setting and then from there i go to the usb boot and from there it sends me to a screen that gives me like 5 options it says

UNebootin
Default
Back.....
Live usb encrypted presistence
Memory Diagnostic tool (memtest86)

I use to press live usb encrypted and it would send me to kali linux with in like 20 sec but not i press the same thing. To live usb encrypted. And then a screen loads and then it tells me something thats like "could not find ramdisk image:live/initrd.img. and nothing would load can anyone help me. Also if i press default it will say dev sed media failed argument not valid can anyone help me plz

John VV 06-24-2016 01:57 PM

Please READ!!! the kali documentation on the kali website
https://www.kali.org/

and READ this section!!!! FIRST!!!!
"Should I Use Kali Linux?" and "Is Kali Linux Right For You?"
http://docs.kali.org/introduction/sh...use-kali-linux

biosboy4 06-24-2016 02:05 PM

Yes, Kali is a pentesting (network penetration testing) tool for white hatters/system admins.

If you're not directly using Kali for this, either in a real world scenario or for educational purposes, then there really is no sense in using it. It would just be a major headache and it will be easy for you to mess up since you're logged in as root to the gui 100% of the time.

However, if you are using it for those purposes.. well then you should probably start by "burning" another live disk to make sure it's not a problem with the local copy that you have. (download it again).

Regards,

biosboy4

yancek 06-24-2016 02:17 PM

If it worked before and following the same method now does not work, what changed? Computers don't make decisions on their own so either you deliberately or unknowingly made some change to cause this or your hardware is going bad. You have an entry for unetbootin showing in your initial post. Did you use unetbootin to do a frugal install on the drive? You're short on information. From what you posted, we have no reason to believe you have any other OS on this machine which seem unlikely.

If you are just trying to learn by using Kali, it would be much simpler to follow the detailed instructions on their site to create a bootable flash drive.

biosboy4 06-24-2016 02:32 PM

Also, just an fyi:

I used to have success with Unetbootin and it went through a few months where I could never get it to work. Moved on to multi-boot usb and never looked back.

I doubt whatever that bug was still exists, but I can't confirm that. (It was definitely a bug because it happened to me on all systems no matter what.)

michaelk 06-24-2016 03:54 PM

Welcome to LinuxQuestions.

Not enough information but my I'm guessing a drive with a live multiboot setup using something like yumi. I also assume your friend actually setup the drive and so If it has failed or has become corrupted then the easiest fix would be to ask your friend to repair the disk or create a new one.

Teddy1902 06-24-2016 05:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yancek (Post 5565817)
If it worked before and following the same method now does not work, what changed? Computers don't make decisions on their own so either you deliberately or unknowingly made some change to cause this or your hardware is going bad. You have an entry for unetbootin showing in your initial post. Did you use unetbootin to do a frugal install on the drive? You're short on information. From what you posted, we have no reason to believe you have any other OS on this machine which seem unlikely.

If you are just trying to learn by using Kali, it would be much simpler to follow the detailed instructions on their site to create a bootable flash drive.

You are right it dident chenge by it self did i mention that its on my usb with my sd card. And the sd card thats in the usb is the one i use in my phone .so i dont know if i migh if messed something up on the phone that might of changed sum of the files


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